tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84843816192702032622024-02-08T06:37:47.732+01:00Noise out of nothingReally out of nothing?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-31296567536965311712017-03-02T20:12:00.001+01:002017-03-02T20:12:37.492+01:00Everything mixed again...Once again it will be a time for total mashup - mix post with different kind of songs and music.<br />
The Eurovisions are coming, <b>Emeli Sandé</b> would be coming to Berlin (I know I should go and see her!) Moby lauched some super relaxed relaxation music (it's actually good for falling asleep), <b>Austra</b> has released a new album called <i>"Future politics" </i>(and they would be also coming to Berlin next week!)...<br />
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But first I will chop Eurovisions into pieces...noo...I will not. I will just pick my favorite Finnish song and one from Sweden. Mostly it will be again another year of sad ballads about world peace and over the top glitter blast!<br />
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Okay okay, so there's always quite hmmm... "interesting" acts competing in Eurovisions. This year I was super happy about the Finnish contestant <b>Norma John</b> with the song <i>"Blackbird"</i> and yes, it's a ballad with a darker tone. But still works, good song and great piano playing.<br />
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Norma John - <i>"Blackbird"</i><br />
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And the Finnish/Swedish <b>Krista Siegfrieds</b> tried to go to the finals in Melodifestival in Sweden. She totally should have gone to the finals but oh no...but she did well!<br />
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Krista Siegfrieds - <i>"Snurra min jord"</i><br />
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Bring on the Swedish disco pop!<br />
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Don't worry that was the ESC part of the post and yes you did survive without glitzer bombs!<br />
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Now your task is to imagine a summer morning, early around 05:00 or 06:00 o'clock. The sun is rising and it's already warm and suddenly you hear this song and start to dance!<br />
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<b>Rysy</b> - <i>"Crystal love"</i></div>
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Rysy is a duo from Poland and you can hear more of their music here: </div>
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The next one is from <b>Clap! Clap! </b>they are from Italy. Definitely interesting, bit strange music but will have to listen more to know..but this song was pretty cool! The new album from them is called <i>"A thousand skies"</i></div>
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Clap! Clap! - <i>"Ar-Raqis" </i>and <i>"Black Acre - Nguwe feat. Bongeziwe Mabandla"</i></div>
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The next artist is from Sweden (the promised land of awesome music!)<br />
This artist is called <b>Dorisburg</b> aka. John Alexander Berg and I got to listen the album <i>"Irrbloss" </i>and I really really liked the whole album. Really amazing music. Should buy the album too some time. If you want some pretty chill (well it's officially labeled under techno, but who cares!) but not boring music you should check this album, It's kinda hard to pick my favorite songs from this one because they are all really great!<br />
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See (hear) for yourself! I totally love these!<br />
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Dorisburg - <i>"Irrbloss"</i></div>
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Dorisburg - <i>"Votiv"</i></div>
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And well...third one never hurt anyone...it's more from the techno side..</div>
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This music totally gets a "hjärtan" from me! You can find out more music from this awesome artist here: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/alexanderberg">https://soundcloud.com/alexanderberg</a><br />
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Now if you know <b>Kings of convenience</b> this sounds pretty familiar...I just can't help hearing them in this song..the musician is <b>Baba Stiltz </b>with a song called <i>"Baby" </i> hehheee...also from Sweden! Heja Sverige! The song is from the <i>"Is everything"</i> EP.<br />
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Found out more here: <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/lungdart">https://soundcloud.com/lungdart</a></span></div>
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The next artist is <b>Akira Kosemura</b> but he has unfortunately only preview songs on his Soundcloud page but still totally worth of checking! Beautiful and calm music!<br />
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/akirakosemuraofficial">https://soundcloud.com/akirakosemuraofficial</a><br />
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<b>Wild beasts </b>is also a totally new artist for me. He has also only preview songs on Soundcloud but you should check them and go to Spotify (where you can listen to them all)<br />
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The next artist comes from South Africa and I have so far heard only one song from her but it is so awesome! The artist is <b>Nonku Phiri</b> and the song is <i>"Regrettables"</i><br />
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Okay and I will end the post with some sleepy music...<b>Moby</b> with <i>"Long ambients"</i> which you can buy or get for free if you want! It's suuper relaxed "quiet" music.<br />
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Check for yourself! Good night and sleep well!<br />
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<a href="http://moby.com/la1/">http://moby.com/la1/</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-72611501255621787972017-01-09T22:14:00.000+01:002017-01-09T22:19:32.061+01:00Radio re-discovered!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love languages and I love music. So I found an amazing site which combines them both!<br />
Huge thanks go to my friend J.M. (you know who you are!) for posting the link in FB! I was seriously stuck with this awesome radio site for some hours afterwards.<br />
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I used to listen quite some radio already as a kid. And my dad had this super cool radio that you could listen to all different radio channels around the world. How awesome that you can "sail" trough the world, countries, languages and cultures just by turning the radio button! Nowadays I feel that the radio has lost so much and mostly all channels are playing the same songs on a never ending loop. I tend to open the radio, but then closing it after 30 minutes because I can't take it anymore.<br />
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This awesome alternative I'm talking about is: Radio.garden It gives you a pretty amazing chance to browse trough many radio channels (mostly internet radios) in "Google Earth" -style environment. So you can just turn the globe and browse endlessly from a country to another.<br />
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First of all this page is awesome if you want to learn new languages or keep up with languages which you have already learned but don't hear that often. And sometimes it's just super cool and quite relaxing to listen to music while not understanding the language at all. So you can totally zone out with this page!<br />
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So far I've been listening only to a tiny fraction of the stations. Stations in Russia, Greece, Turkey, random Arabic speaking countries, Italy, Finland....<br />
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And of course I wanted to try out if I could find any stations in China, but the last time I was maybe able to find five or six stations. North-Korea is totally empty! Last year (2016) in December I was still able to listen to radios in Aleppo, Syria but now there's nothing. But you can still tune in in Damascus.<br />
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Here's a small article about the guy, Jonathan Puckey, behind this project:<br />
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And the link to all this awesomeness is <a href="http://radio.garden/">http://radio.garden</a><br />
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pssst...check radios in Tehran, it's pretty cool!<br />
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I skipped NYE's parties in Berlin, they are overpriced and too crowded. And anyhows you have all the other 364 days to go to nice techno parties which are bit more decently priced! Meanwhile I have found some cool new songs and this post will be again mix of everything (nice!). So bare with me and I hope you like these songs!<br />
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I seem to have taught my Spotify pretty well because in the past time I've found quite some cool songs via it. This one is also from my Spotify recommendations. The artist is <b>BeGun </b>and the song is called <i>"Nari" </i>it's a chill and nice afternoon song.<br />
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According to SoundCloud Begun comes from Spain. He has released an album called <i>"Amma"</i> on 2016, in a quick browse trough the album sounds pretty cool. Relaxed music with some African vibes. Totally recommend it if you like a mix of electronic and African music.<br />
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The next artist comes from....Finland!! Even though crazily enough her music hasn't been played yet that much in Finland. I'm talking now about the most awesome <b>Alma</b> ! She's a young artist who has kinda hit trough already, but we are still waiting for a longer album from her. She released <i>"Dye my hair" -</i>album in 2016. If you have heard some songs from her it must be either <i>"Karma"</i> or the song from <b>Felix Jaehn</b> <i>"Bonfire ft. Alma". </i>I still personally don't get why she is not that popular in Finland, because she has really a phenomenal voice! But as so often bigger artists who sing in English are either talked over to change their "singing language" into Finnish or otherwise they can create careers abroad, which is totally ridiculous. This must change!<br />
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Here the kick ass songs from Alma! And those superrr beats! Pa pa pa paaa!<br />
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The next artist come from Spain.. <b>Marcos Cruz </b> I know only this song from him, but it's a nice one!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what do you get if you combine electro rockabilly style music with Turkish music?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Bright light bright light</b> - album <i>"Choreography"</i></span></span><br />
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The next one is from a tv series <i>"Stranger things",</i> it's a sci-fi series which is pretty great! "<i>Stranger things"</i> got lot of praise from its soundtrack which is done by a group called <b>Survive</b> from USA, Texas, Austin. If you like synth music, you should definitely check the sound track. It's ridiculous how catchy the main theme is, I think I could watch this 10 minute version of it in one sit:<br />
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This next band comes from The Netherlands!! And they are awesome! And they are called <b>Crying boys cafe.</b> Here's a live performance from them from the popular talk show De Wereld draait door (The world turn around) in The Netherlands.</div>
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They have released an album <i>"The keys not the people"</i> in 2016 which is definitely worth of checking out! I especially liked the song <i>"Be so".</i><br />
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Here, have a beautiful song from the band <b>Sea Bed</b> from the UK!</div>
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I will end the fairly long post with this cool song from <b>Waterbed.</b></div>
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Oh yeah, and because it's 2017!!</div>
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Within the last two weeks I somehow ended up watching these two music videos couple of times and I would say that they are pretty tragic ones, but still great.<br />
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The first is from <b>Mykki Blanco</b>. I saw the name at the gig list of Gretchen (a club here) and thought that I had seen the name somewhere, anyhow I didn't end up going to the gig but then last week finally looked up better who is this artist. Mykki Blanco is an artist from USA, he released his debut album <i>"Mykki"</i> this year (2016). I haven't yet listened the album trough but it seems to be more electronic/hiphop. Some people got to know Mykki Blanco from this video about the USA president election 2016 where he recites a poem by <b>Zoe Leonard</b> <i>"I want a dyke for president"</i> which has a pretty strong message:<br />
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Mykki Blanco performs poem <i>"I want a dyke for president"</i> by Zoe Leonard</div>
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The other video is a older one. Just somehow stumbled upon it again and watched it. She's one of my favorite artists: <b>Lykke Li</b> and the music video of <i>"Never gonna love again"</i> She's having this "for ever continuing struggle and pain" -theme pretty often in her music videos, sometimes I get also super annoyed by it, but this video just stays in your head. The song hits hard especially if you listen the song (the youtube video version) without watching the video with your headphones on. You will notice if you try.</div>
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And then some not so tragic videos but visually really cool ones. <b>Solange Knowles</b> has released a new album <i>"A seat at the table" </i>in September 2016 and I really liked her old music videos and the new ones are also great!</div>
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Check also <i>"Cranes in the sky"</i> from her<br />
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One other for ever my favorite artists of mine is <b>Roisin Murphy.</b> She has always really cool music videos for her songs. This video <i>"Whatever"</i> is from her new album <i>"Take her up to Monto"</i> which was released in July 2016. Brilliant as ever!</div>
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And as we are in the smart phone theme and the emojis, likes and apps it's good to continue with the really stunning music video of <b>Moby and the void pacific choir</b> for the song <i>"Are you lost in the world like me?" </i>from the new album <i>"These systems are failing". (</i>And finally GEMA isn't blocking anymore the youtube videos because they got into an agreement with Youtube (Finally!) Great for everybody living in Germany) The animation for this video is made by <b>Steve Cutts </b>and it's amazing!<br />
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The opening act was The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra (SEPO, later using the shortening). The group consists of Syrians refugees who had to flee their own war torn country to EU countries and elsewhere. I was really impressed about the passion and the joy the Syrians had in their music, while knowing how horrendous things are happening in Syria at the same time. You could sense the sorrow and sadness from some of the songs, but still the whole set of SEPO was more vivid than the set of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. The whole audience of some 5.000 people (guess) were applauding after every song and shouting "Bravo, bravo."<br />
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I haven't listened that much Middle-Eastern music and was very impressed about the happiness and livelihood of the music. There were lot of quick changes, the music stayed the whole time interesting and evolving, it didn't have the "typical" ending of the classical pieces which build up into a huge "bombastic" end but it surprised you just when you though you would know what comes next.<br />
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After SEPO had finished and the Berlin philharmonic orchestra started it felt like the whole playfulness was gone and the "serious classical music" -mode was on. I felt almost falling half asleep while the orchestra was playing <b>Johannes Brahms</b> and <b>Antonín Dvorák.</b><br />
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Solo clarinet: Kinan Azmeh</div>
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5. Oh! My homeland</div>
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6. Rose</div>
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8. Passion</div>
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10. Damascus - one more aspect<br />
11. The silk road<br />
12. November 22nd<br />
13. Wedding<br />
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I truly loved the whole concert! It was so great to see so much commitment, strength and passion in the orchestra playing. I was very astonished by the vividness of the music. Some songs reminded me bit of the Greek music. The Middle-Eastern music has such a different rhythm than the western music. It was refreshing to hear something totally new. And knowing what these people had to go trough made the concert extra special. I think many from the audience felt quite moved after the concert. The whole hall was standing and clapping till the orchestra went off from the stage. It was also my first time hearing a soprano singing in Arabic. I would have loved to hear more songs with the oud played by Maher Mahmoud, really loved the sound of it. But I have to admit that all the soloistst were amazing!<br />
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Unfortunately SEPO doesn't have yet any albums out, I would surely want to buy the album of this concert.<br />
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You can follow SEPO on facebook here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Syrian-Expat-Philharmonic-Orchestra-SEPO-108858616125496/?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/Syrian-Expat-Philharmonic-Orchestra-SEPO-108858616125496/?fref=ts</a><br />
Here's the official homepage: <a href="http://sepo-philharmonic.com/">http://sepo-philharmonic.com/</a><br />
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Here's a short video report of DW from the concert in Berlin.<br />
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One song from the concert at Malmö, Sweden the day after the concert in Berlin:<br />
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And here's their own YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtDjhSW1vaNthlKlFUygQeg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtDjhSW1vaNthlKlFUygQeg</a><br />
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More info about Middle-Eastern music: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_music">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_music</a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6px;">Here's the link to Bischoff's Soundcloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jherek-bischoff">https://soundcloud.com/jherek-bischoff</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6px;">And just now noticed that of course the record label where Bischoff is, is Leaf where's also artists like<b> Colleen</b>, <b>Caribou</b>, <b>Efterklang</b> and <b>Vladislav Delay</b> and here you can find the rest</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">I'm an optimist but sometimes I have to listen music from a <b>Pessimist</b> ha ha haaa...I know a lame joke but I had to. <b>Pessimist</b> aka. <b>Kristian Jabs</b> comes from the UK and makes drumm & bass music.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;">Even though I haven't been a big fan of drumm & bass (well Burial..) I really enjoy Pessimist's work and sounds.</span><br />
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Here you can find the Soundcloud page of Pessimist: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pessimist">https://soundcloud.com/pessimist</a><br />
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Then it's time for some totally awesome oldskool vibes. <b>Letherette</b> aka <b>Andy Harber and Rich Roberts</b> come also from the UK,<br />
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Check the new album under this link (can't embed it)<br />
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<b>Volte-Face</b> is a totally new UK artist for me, but oh he makes great techno! I really really love his sound! Just listen this stream trough and you'll love it! Even though the last song is named <i>"Dead cat on the dinner table"</i> it's an amazing song! Put your techno shoes on!<br />
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You can buy Volte-Face's "You bury me" from Hard wax: <a href="https://hardwax.com/">https://hardwax.com</a><br />
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One other artist I found from Hard wax (I should take time and go them all trough) is <b>Emiel Zwart </b>who comes from The Netherlands, Rotterdam. (A great place of techno in the The Netherlands). Should buy also his stuff!<br />
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And one more via Hard wax: <b>Abayomi</b> who's a Berlin resident.<br />
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Ok some more easy going music now.... <b>The Avalanches</b> sounds groovy! The next would happen most likely if you watch <i>"The wizard of Oz" </i>on drugs..<br />
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<b>Konx-Om-Pax</b> comes from Scotland but resides in Berlin. They have a new album called <i>"Caramel"</i> out from the label Planet Mu. I really think I will end up buying it!</div>
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<i>"Oren's Theme" </i>and<i> "Caramel"</i> are great too...Just check all of the songs!<br />
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<b>Special request </b>aka. <b>Paul Woolford</b> is a great artist too<br />
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Listen <i>"Damage"</i> from here:</div>
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Check from the <i>"Modern warfare"</i> songs <i>"Take Me"</i> and <i>"Simulation" .</i></div>
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<b>My Nu Leng </b>are from Bristol. Great club music. This song is from a cool collaboration, which My Nu Leng participated too, between musicians and Malawi.<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/163517101">Beating Heart - Malawi</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/voxfilms">VOX Films</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Definitely worth of buying this collection <i>"Burning heart - Malawi". </i>(Though I think I will have to get some other ones too, too much great new music out!)<i> </i> Hope you enjoyed the music tips of this post! Until the next one!</div>
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The song <i>"After laughter" </i>is originally done by <b>Wendy Rene</b> (1947-2014) written together with her brother in the 1964. Maaany artists have done covers from this song.<br />
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Should actually write a post about Nicolas Jaar because he has done a lot good music!</div>
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Even though the <b>Eurovision</b> song contest was competed already a while ago, (see, my notes are bit old), there were some great artists that even didn't get to compete to Sweden. One I really liked was <b>Mick Pedaja</b> from Estonia with the song <i>"Seis" </i>(Stop). I really love the magical atmosphere of the song. I would definitely love to see this artist live or to buy an album of his!</div>
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Mick Pedaja - <i>"Peakskiviimaks / Ought at last"</i><br />
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And then jump to something totally different...a mix made in heaven! <b>Burial & Four tet </b>mix can only mean something good!</div>
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Burial & Four tet - <i>"Nova"</i><br />
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<b>Christian Löffler</b> - <i>"Blind"</i></div>
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Should also write and check more songs from him! Here's the Soundcloud account:</div>
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Next one I heard thanks to Spotify....</div>
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<b>Turtle</b> - <i>"Who knows"</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-19597611536924093232016-06-12T14:32:00.000+02:002016-06-12T14:35:29.713+02:00Die Antwoord @ Zitadelle, BerlinFinally I got the chance to see the one of the most controversial bands from South-Africa; <b>Die Antwoord.</b> They were playing at Zitadelle at Spandau, Berlin 4.6.2016. The event was sold out already for a long time before and I was expecting that there will be lots of people, but not really that much what it actually was. According to Berlin Morgenpost there were aprox. 10.000 people at the gig!<br />
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<b>Romano</b> was the warming up act for Die Antwoord, He's a pretty well known German hiphop/rap artist. He is known from hits like <i>"Köpenick"</i> (it's a city district next to Berlin) and <i>"Klaps auf den Po"</i> (Claps on the ass). I like his style and sound, was just bit surprised when watching the music video of "Köpenick": it was shot in L.A. Compton. I was looking forward to see something cool from Köpenick itself, maybe next time then when he would write a song about "Königs Wusterhausen"! Romano mixes his rap with dance electronic sounds like in "Klaps auf den Po". Romano's music made everybody dance (even though I didn't still understand all the lyrics, but the beat and sound was good enough on its own). And as a non hiphop/rap person I was convinced and danced along, this guy has a good sound and attitude!<br />
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Check also the <i>"Metalkutte"</i> from Romano! More videos here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7La9K4wQtzU2q7gQ57X3cQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7La9K4wQtzU2q7gQ57X3cQ</a><br />
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After Romano had played it started to rain quite a lot, and there was still waiting before Die Antwoord would go on stage. <b>DJ Craft (K.I.Z)</b> was playing still in between, but it was pretty boring to be honest (mixing just some big hits until the point the public was getting tired with it and wanted to see Die Antwoord).<br />
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Finally after some hours (about two including the both warming up acts) Die Antwoord came on stage! They had literally an insane show and the public was with them. I was pretty much forced to go bit back in the crowd because everyone, meaning this huge sea of about 8.000-10.000 people, was starting to jump and push around "crowd moshing or mosh pit". But as a bit smaller person this was seriously not fun, being stuck and trying to keep other people on jumping on me I kinda lost the first parts of the gig totally trying to just concentrate on not getting mad and punching other people.<br />
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Maybe I should have read this one before, How to mosh in a mosh pit: <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Mosh-in-a-Mosh-Pit">http://www.wikihow.com/Mosh-in-a-Mosh-Pit</a><br />
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Die Antwoord had just released a new album <b>"Donker mag"</b> a day before the gig (3.6.2016) but they played maybe like 2/3 new songs. It was great the hear all the huge hits like <i>"I fink u freaky", "Enter the Ninja"</i> etc. The stage show was good and hyper energetic as you could expect from Die Antwoord. Great backup dancers and lots of Die Antwoord clothing (crazy sweaters, neon colours and red). Saw also one dedicated fan who was looking exactly like Yolandi Vi$$er, props for her!<br />
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I've now listened couple times the new album "Donker Mag" through and sort of liked the sound, but the "angst" is just still too much in the album, can't help it. My favorites were<i> "Ugly boy", "Cookie thumper", "Donker mag"</i> (with beautiful organs)<i> and "Girl I want 2 eat U"</i> which had bit the sounds from reggaeton (at least remotely).<br />
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But I have to admit I've developed now sort of a like/dislike relationship with this band since the first time I heard about them. I do get that they want to give this "crazy wacky" image. It's anyhow quite hard to become a huge name/artist from the South-Africa and so quickly. In that they have succeeded. I'm anyhow still bit disgusted/disliking/"done" with some of their music videos, like the <i>"Pitbull terrier"</i>. I have just seen too often this super angst what they have in their videos and all the violence, and I'm not now talking about just someone shooting someone or so, but about Ninja dressed in rubber "pitbull terrier" mask eating other people's necks while the blood is bursting all out. (wrong for all the nice pitbull terriers out there!) Here you can see for yourself if you want!<br />
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Here you can listen trough the new album <i>"Donker mag"</i><b>:</b></div>
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<b>Mat Zo</b> - <i>"Sinful" </i>from this song I only noted down two things: welding masks and strippers in a bar.<br />
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<b>Catz 'n Dogz feat Tanika</b> - <i>"Get it right"</i>. This Polish creation was also high on my list. I like how they have gathered so many different groups of people into this video; you have the motocross boys, cheer leaders, american football girls, equestrians, priests, fishermen, the hooligans and the high class house wives.</div>
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<b>Synapson</b> - <i>"Fireball"</i> in this video two girls are getting bored with their boyfriends and end up being a couple. Pretty common story line, but even being in Berlin the audience gave a small "ohh" sound when they saw two girls kissing in the end of the video.</div>
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<b>Reid Willis</b> -<i> "Search for the blue pearl"</i> maybe I've seen too many time Matrix because I was wanting to write the name of the song several times wrong:<i> Search for the blue pill.</i> This was one of the rare videos that was shot in Berlin (you can spot the S-bahn (city train) from the video). I like how the song itself is pretty minimalistic and so are the small subtle changes. They have shot normal every day life from Berlin and surroundings and afterwards changed small parts and made non living things move with the music. You see the iron bars jumping up and down, lights turning on and off. I really liked the theme of how the whole city gets its own life.</div>
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This was the only stop motion animated music video of the category and possibly of the whole BMVA 2016. The Delta Q guys are singing multiple times the same song but in different styles and for each style they created own scenes. Was thinking how insane amount of work this has taken. I totally agree that this music video was also the right one to win this category of best editor. </div>
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The "Best song" category went bit pass me, being so tired after seeing all videos I was forcing myself to stay and see the videos. In this category they had thought only about the song and didn't care about the video itself. It was very easy to pick my favorite from this and my personal winner was: <b>Robot Koch & Julien Marchal</b> - <i>"Care"</i>. I knew Robot Koch from before and was waiting already something great when hearing the name. The video is also quite astonishing with the colors floating trough the air, combined with the dreamy song it definitely was a perfect combination.<br />
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On the second day of the festival I was able to attend it myself. Second day there were videos competing in five different categories: Best visual effects, Best cinematography, Best art director, Best editor and Best song. So it was a full day's or lets say full evening's work to watch all the videos. It took about 4-5 hours to watch it all (including breaks). The BMVA took place this year in Gretchen, which is a nice club close by Mehringdamm in Berlin. FYI I don't mention all the videos that were competing but my favorites or dislikes. You can go for the full listings to BMVA site: <a href="http://www.berlinmva.com/main/nomineescategories-2016/">http://www.berlinmva.com/main/nomineescategories-2016/</a></div>
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The new "hip" in this year's videos were different kinds of paints and liquids splashing or oozing from the eyes. After you saw it in a couple of videos you started to think if they had seen bit too much of X-Files (black oil kröhmm..). There were some big names competing too in the best visual effects category, one was <b>Zayn</b> with <i>"Pillow talk". </i>I had heard the song quite some times in the radio before but was surprised how visually beautiful the video was. But at some point the couple's kissing and the red oozy eyes were getting bit blah..but anyhow the video had some beautiful moments. Here's some photos from it:</div>
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I think <b>Gem club</b> - <i>"Speech of foxes"</i> should have competed in the best narrative section instead of the best visual effects. While watching I was just thinking about the story of the man in the video, where he was burning all his old photos. While throwing the photos into the fire he started to burn himself too and turning slowly into ashes.</div>
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I had pretty mixed feelings about this video. First I thought oh how cool idea, then it was just gross and then I was thinking if I'm watching a mouth or a vagina..so after all that going trough in my head I just disliked the extreme close ups of the mouth. If it was Björk who's mouth was being filmed I can say at least that she has good teeth! See for yourself:<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/122568529">M+R / MONTMARTRE - OUT OF VIOLENCE</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/noside">NOSIDE</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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<b>Darwin Deez</b> was competing in multiple categories this year but I still didn't like his video <i>"Kill your attitude" </i>that much. It had a funny idea behind though...the whole music video was shot like the singer would be part of a video game "Counter strike". But I never really liked Counter strike so then I didn't really like the video either.<br />
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<b>Noah </b>- <i>"Flaw"</i> was one of my favorites too. A visually beautiful video with amazing landscapes. I liked the flying clothes and the floating bodies. The song was bit <b>Sigur Ros</b>'ish. Super dreamy!<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/125655198">Noah "flaw"</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/takcom">takcom™</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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My immediate favorite was <b>Stromae</b> - <i>"Quand c'est".</i> I've listened before some music from him and have big respect towards this amazing artist! He has other genius videos too you should check out! (At least Tous les memes: <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMWdvo71ls">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMWdvo71ls</a></span></span>) The song "Quand c'est" when translated means "When it is?" in English. The trick is that if you say Quand c'est in French it sounds bit like cancer in English. Stromae uses this kind of tricks often in his songs and lyrics like <i>"Moules frites" </i>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2fQjJIWMw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2fQjJIWMw</a>) If you understand French the double meanings of the lyrics will open up easier.</div>
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But anyhow back to the video of "Quand c'est". It is a captivating and touching video to watch. How the "cancer" is taking hold of the theater and then eventually of the dancer while Stromae is singing. He is asking when the cancer would be taking a holiday, telling how mischievous it can be starting from the mother's breasts and taking slowly over the whole body. Stromae won the category of best visual effects with this video.</div>
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The second category <b>Best cinematography.</b></div>
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<b>Alice on the roof</b> - <i>"Easy come easy go" </i>was totally new for me.</div>
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Easy come easy go is a very beautiful song, but the video didn't really get high points from me, it was another "breaking up" video. Seems like that was one themes of the music video's this year's competition.</div>
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Major Lazer is more known from his tongue in the cheek type music videos like <i>"Pon de floor" </i>so I was very surprised about the video I saw, in a very positive way. The music video tells about a funeral in a small village somewhere in Africa. I think there they see funerals as a more joyful party to celebrate the life of the deceased person. I like this idea a lot better and think that it should be more common in Europe too. Why to just mourn these people while we can celebrate the life what they had and remember the good things?</div>
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The <i>"Light it up"</i> video is just beautiful. It has a short extract from a poem in the end. The poem is called: <i>"Kae"</i> (translated remember). I was lucky enough to find the poem and would like copy it here so you can read the full poem before listening and watching the music video. It's a bit long but worth of reading trough. It tells about the struggle and the suffering Africa had to go trough because of the invasion of the western people. I tried to fix the possible typos what the translator left there..</div>
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<i>"My people</i></div>
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<i>Do you know what time we are in now?</i></div>
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<i>My people</i></div>
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<i>We’ve rested so long in sleep</i></div>
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<i>Far too long</i></div>
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<i>Let us arise</i></div>
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<i>Let us arise and remember</i></div>
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<i>Remember life</i></div>
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<i>Wise people and Fools</i></div>
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<i>Beautiful stars and powerful Suns</i></div>
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<i>Children and Elders of Africa</i></div>
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<i>Remember</i></div>
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<i>Can we remember the time before</i></div>
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<i>The arrival of albinos/Europeans to Africa?</i></div>
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<i>The time before we were dispersed all over this earth</i></div>
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<i>Before slavery</i></div>
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<i>Before colonialism</i></div>
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<i>Before exploitation</i></div>
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<i>Before the heart of Africa began bleeding</i></div>
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<i>Who caused all of this suffering?</i></div>
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<i>We know</i></div>
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<i>We know</i></div>
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<i>And remember</i></div>
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<i>We did not forget</i></div>
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<i>Remember and be prepared</i></div>
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<i>Who ignores the truth?</i></div>
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<i>Who ignores the history?</i></div>
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<i>Who can forget Our suffering?</i></div>
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<i>In slavery</i></div>
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<i>In exploitation of colonialism</i></div>
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<i>Nevertheless</i></div>
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<i>We survived</i></div>
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<i>We survived</i></div>
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<i>Remember</i></div>
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<i>Our enemy will be brought before justice</i></div>
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<i>He cannot hide from the eyes of the Ancestors</i></div>
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<i>Remember</i></div>
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<i>Remember and stand</i></div>
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<i>Birds have feathers because they were passed down to them by other birds</i></div>
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<i>Remember</i></div>
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<i>Where is the returning path (to Our Way)? </i></div>
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<i>Look back and feel the unseen power of remembrance</i></div>
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<i>Because Our Ancestors are with us</i></div>
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<i>They are Our strength</i></div>
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<i>Our Ancestors work very hard on Our behalf</i></div>
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<i>We also, we must work very hard</i></div>
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<i>To help Our children and change life on earth</i></div>
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<i>Life is dying and undying</i></div>
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<i>But you must remember</i></div>
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<i>Look back</i></div>
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<i>We are at a crossroads</i></div>
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<i>Between life and death</i></div>
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<i>Who will show us the way?</i></div>
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<i>Who will open the path?</i></div>
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<i>It is </i></div>
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<i>Train your mind</i></div>
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<i>Train your mind</i></div>
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<i>To remember and to heal</i></div>
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<i>To remember and to destroy</i></div>
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<i>Remember</i></div>
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<i>To hold onto that which holds you up</i></div>
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<i>Do not give it away</i></div>
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<i>Rise up (spiritually)</i></div>
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<i>Sing a new song</i></div>
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<i>Remember Our traditions</i></div>
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<i>Let’s Return</i></div>
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<i>To Our roots</i></div>
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<i>For Change</i></div>
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<i>For Justice</i></div>
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<i>For Balance</i></div>
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<i>For Life</i></div>
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<i>Collectively</i></div>
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<b>Nao</b> - <i>"Bad blood"</i> was also something totally new for me. It seemed to be also a trend to have naked people walking around. As a person from the North I was like okay again they have tried to use this nakedness as some sort of an effect, so people would go like "Oh what, she's naked!". I saw the person naked as a some sort of a life giver. When she was watching people they would have small trees popping out of their eyes. And the people would arise from dead. The song itself is pretty much house.<br />
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Nao - Bad blood</div>
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<b>Lunakid</b> - <i>"Technicolor"</i>. Lunakid comes from Germany and some of the producers and other crew of the video were also present. The video had very cool costumes! I hope there would be actually a category only for costumes. It would be awesome! I remember from this video mostly only the golden and black masks and the vcr tape. The atmosphere is pretty dark and so the song too. They are worshiping VCR cassetes, well sort of...maybe.."Must have old tape!"<br />
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Lunakid - Technicolor</div>
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I was happy to see Susanne Sundför competing in this category and knew the song already beforehand. Accelerate is a music video with loots of strobo lights, big disco ball and people floating naked in the water. Kinda sexy! The video is well done and fits the song good. Great song to listen bit louder!<br />
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Susanne Sundför - Accelerate</div>
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<b>Hurts</b> - <i>"Lights" </i> was a totally new artist for me. They had a pretty crazy video with some as crazy dancing in a disco. And if you watched the video you'll know not to mess around with these people while they are dancing! This video won the category even though I would have wanted to give the prize to Lunakid!<br />
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This was maybe the most disgusting video of the competition. It shows a man shooting himself to the head and how the corpse starts to rot with maggots wriggling around and mice eating the body. So in you have been warned and you can watch the video if you want. Maybe not good thing to do while eating or before eating.<br />
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I got the chance to go to the <b>Berlin music video awards</b> this year (noticed the event just in time). It is the 4th time they organized this four day long festival. If you are a friend of music videos I really recommend this event! You will get the chance to see all different kind of music videos from all over the world. So far they have received videos from 100 countries. So if you feel bored with watching only mainstream videos <b>BMVA</b> is a good place. (They have always some big names competing too, but the nice thing is that they have the same chances as the other "less known" artists.<br />
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So I was at the festival only on the second day, but was checking videos of the other days later and will (try) to make a post about every day of the festival and pick up my favorite videos and songs.<br />
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On the first day there were competitors 3 different categories: <b>Best concept, Best narrative </b>and<b> Best director.</b><br />
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In best concept category there were quite some good participants so it was kinda hard to decide which I would like the most. But nevertheless, I ended up choosing <b>Yvein Monq</b> - <i>"Twun"</i> as my favorite one. The music video is a high heel nightmare compilation, people tripping with their high heels. You can feel the struggle of the people walking in these insane shoes. I just hope nobody got hurt while doing this video. The video is especially bit hard to watch if you have had a ankle injury yourself!<br />
The song itself is also a good one, cool, bit down tempo house'ish song. The music video and song is a collaboration of three different countries: Spain, Hungary and France.<br />
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You should also check Yvein Monq's Soundcloud channel:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The next video from Bokka is a really beautiful one. Telling a story about a boy who was dreaming about flying and built his own wings. (Oh yes, bit syrupy, but watch it anyhow). I really liked the video and the song! Definitely worth to check some other songs from Bokka too!</span><br />
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So the next category was Best narrative...it was first bit hard to find your favorite from this category when many of the songs were about just killing, shooting and bloody people. But when I saw <b>Lucille Crew</b>'s - <i>"What the hell"</i> and <b>Savage</b>'s -<i> "Like Michael Jackson"</i> I was like yeah, finally! </div>
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Lucille Crew had a nostalgic music video made as a old computer game. I really liked the theme and the jokes in the video, like when you jump and catch a joint you will be soon flying with a jetpack trough the game and the girls are throwing razor blades in fire. Even though I'm not a big fan of hip hop but I still liked this song!</div>
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The stream is not available in Germany because the f*cked up GEMA. But well you will find a way to stream it, wink wink! Now just on the second song of the album and I loove it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-52422767313839075042015-07-08T20:34:00.000+02:002015-07-08T20:34:38.850+02:00Women with attitudeIn this post I will tell you about three artists that I found some time ago but they have been waiting in my list to be written about and now's the time! The common factor with these three artists is that they are women with attitude and you can hear it also in their music!<br />
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I heard about this next artist randomly enough via FB group "Humans of Rotterdam" because the artist herself is from Rotterdam but now residing in London. She has released just while ago her debut <i><b>"1303 EP"</b></i>. The rising artist (I'm sure we'll hear more about her later) I'm talking about is <b>Cherisha Etnel.</b> She makes cool dancy, hip hop'ish music with great beats!<br />
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As last but not least I want to present you one Swedish singer called <b>Beatrice Eli</b> who makes also quite dancy end edgy music as you can see from this video. I still have to search more of her work but after listening this one I'm pretty convinced!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-5705921792962539752015-06-23T18:16:00.000+02:002015-06-23T18:23:08.086+02:00How big, how blue, how beautiful.The new album <i>"How big, how blue, how beautiful"</i> from Florence and the machine is finally out! (Already some time ago) It is quite different from the older ones. Definitely more rock. It has gotten lots of good reviews and people have been saying that now she has finally found her own style. But I must admit I liked bit more the dancy/electronic touch. But of course it's a question of taste. Though I have to admit that the album feels complete and whole in a very different way from the debut album <i>"Two lungs".</i><br />
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I was surprised to read an article in a Finnish newspaper where they were talking about how the English newspapers had been complaining that the English rock/pop is nowadays made too much by the upper class, noting also that Florence came from a rich family. I have to disagree and just admit that it doesn't matter what is the background of the people who are making music. Of course it's important to appreciate what you have, that's clear. But music shouldn't be judged by the background of the artists. Passion is the most important thing. And the music shouldn't be judged by if the people are lower or upper class, because it doesn't affect music itself.<br />
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What I like in the new <i>"How big, how blue, how beautiful" </i>is that it surprises. Like the song <i>"What kind of man"</i> which starts in a calm and beautiful atmosphere and then suddenly after a minute rocks off. I can imagine the new album will bring lots of new fans in. One good word how to describe the new album would be "STRONG" in capital letters. It has a new kick that wasn't there in the old albums.<br />
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<i>"Delilah"</i> is also one of my favorites. It's an energetic song that has something from the hit <i>"Dog days are over"</i> but in a more serious grown up way. Oh and the vocals in this song, big love!<br />
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"Long lost" is one of my biggest favourite (I have quite some favorites from this album already though as you see). It's kinda sad and a soothing song at the same time, and has very beautiful beats. Calm before the storm would be a good description.<br />
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Are all those bridges now old stone?<br />
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Another from my top 3 from this album is <i>"Third eye"</i>. I found myself singing loud the <i>"Ua, ua. Ua, ua."</i> -part of the song. I love how energetic this song is. It makes you want to run in an open field and shout out loud "Ua, ua!" </div>
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And my top 3 becames full with <i>"Saint Jude"</i>. It's a touchy song, but does't get too mellow. It's a song that awakens you from the sleep. The music video was bit too "trying to be super touchy, artsy and feely at the same time" what is quite often the problem with Florence's videos.</div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/123356471">FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE "ST JUDE"</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/vincenthaycock">VINCENT HAYCOCK</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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But I admit after listening the new album now couple times trough that Florence has grown a lot with this album. I would be happy still hear some of the dancy elements in her coming career. But as said her strong voice goes well with the more rock'ish new sound. One thing I heard was kinda missing somehow was the harp, which was quite dominating before and kinda almost a trademark for lots of Flo's older songs (or maybe I just didn't hear it). But it's great that the band has taken a new step! Check out the new album now!</div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/114015196">'CAN YOU HEAR ME?' A short film for The Prodigy</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/pauldugdale">PAUL DUGDALE</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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1. The Day is My Enemy<br />
2. Nasty<br />
3. Rebel Radio<br />
4. Ibiza feat. Sleaford Mods<br />
5. Destroy<br />
6. Wild Frontier<br />
7. Rok-Weiler<br />
8. Beyond the Deathray<br />
9. Rhythm Bomb feat. Flux Pavilion<br />
10. Roadblox<br />
11. Get Your Fight On<br />
12. Medicine<br />
13. Invisible Sun<br />
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<b>Björk</b> will also release a new album<i> "Vulnicura"</i> in the end of March too. Someone leaked some of the songs to the internet which forced Björk to release the album earlier (the digital version only). I listened little bit the album trough and can't say yet if I like it, because what it comes to Björk I will have to give some time for the album. You can stream the album via iTunes. <br />
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<b>Scuba</b> has also released a new album!! It carries the name <i>"Claustrophobia"</i> which I haven't listened yet trough, but I can almost count on him that it will be amazing!<br />
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And also <b>Florence and the Machine</b> will be releasing a new album this summer, the new album will be called "<i>How Big How Blue How Beautiful" </i>and<b> the official release date is 2.6<i>.</i></b> I'm really looking forward for their new album!<br />
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6. "Delilah"<br />
7. "Long and Lost"<br />
8. "Caught"<br />
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I don't know what's the thing with Flo's music videos, but it seems like they are always so much full of suffering. She has some super cool music videos from the last albums, but I'm thinking they should find some new aspects instead of the "iternal suffering". I don't want to be judgemental but I'm just bit done with these "I'm in so much pain" -videos ,though still one of my favorite Flo music videos is <i>"No light, no Light" </i>and<i> "Dog days are over"</i>.</div>
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And then I had a written list about songs and artists to write about already for quite some time. I'm actually not sure if I wrote already about him, but anyhows I will write now again. So..I was in a super cool techno party in a small club some time ago. It was some of the nicest techno parties so far that I have been here in Berlin, with friendly people and not those I-need-to-be-so-cool-uberhipster-people. I know that if I pick any song from this artist it will be great techno and that's lot said! Let me present you the techno wunderkind <b>Julian Jeweil</b>. He's based in France and in Berlin.</div>
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I'll say once more, he's awesome!<br />
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FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Julian-Jeweil/181527245868?fref=ts">Julian Jeweil FB</a><br />
RA: <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/julianjeweil">http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/julianjeweil</a><br />
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<b>Soukie & Windish</b> were playing also in the same party, it seemed that there were only very good dj's that night! They have also quite cool stuff, it's bit more relaxed techno I would say...check it out for yourself:<br />
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And one of my favorite techno duo's <b>Pan-Pot</b> has also released a new EP called<i> "Grey matter".</i><br />
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So have a nice weekend dance a lot and sleep late! LG!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-59109650324899103502015-01-20T00:16:00.000+01:002015-01-20T18:28:56.346+01:00The big big Bleep listEvery year one of my favorite source of music, Bleep, makes a list of 100 best songs of that year. I took the time, which took actually quite loong..to browse the list trough and picked my favorite ones, some I knew, but most of them were totally new for me. Found couple very interesting artists, couple dope ones..it's a mix of calm music, techno, world music, muslim trance, crazy ones so it's all mixed. The songs are not in any particular order for me. Some songs weren't actually on the list but were from the same artist who was on the list (if I thought that the other song was cooler).<br />
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<b>Andy Stott</b> - <i>"Damage"</i> but I chose out of the list <i>"Faith in strangers"</i> (from the same named album) and also <i>"On oath".</i><br />
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Hadn't heard anything before from this artist and he really surprised me positively. Very good stuff!<br />
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Andy Stott SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/modernlove" target="_blank">Andy Stott SoundCloud</a><br />
Andy Stott FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Andy-Stott/262174253793725" target="_blank">Andy Stott FB</a><br />
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<b>Caribou</b> - <i>"Can't do without you"</i> is a groovy dance song and well the lyrics will stick into your head. Haven't listened that much Caribou though I have heard lot about them.<br />
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Get more of Caribou: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/caribouband" target="_blank">Caribou SoundCloud</a><br />
Webpage: <a href="http://www.caribou.fm/" target="_blank">Caribou official</a><br />
Become a Caribou fan at Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/caribouband" target="_blank">Caribou FB</a><br />
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<b>Fatima al Qadiri</b> -<i> "Shanghai freeway"</i> on the list but I choose <i>"Muslim Trance mini-mix"</i>. It is a mix of Islamic sacred Shi’ite and Sunni acapella found from the internet. I think this was one of the most interesting artists from the list. If SoundCloud info is correct then this artist comes from Kuwait. I wonder how many muslim woman dj's there are. Would be cool to hear more!<br />
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Fatima al Qadiri SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/fatima-al-qadiri" target="_blank">Fatima al Qadiri SoundCloud </a><br />
Fatima al Qadiri official: <a href="http://fatimaalqadiri.com/" target="_blank">Fatima al Qadiri official</a><br />
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<b>FKA Twigs</b> - <i>"Two weeks"</i> is a sexy and a beautiful song. Check the music video!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/98739750">FKA TWIGS [two weeks]</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nabilelderkin">nabil elderkin</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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<b>Grouper</b> - <i>"Clearing" </i>is a very calm and a beautiful song<i>. </i>Check also<i> "Vital"</i> from Soundcloud.<i><br /></i><br />
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Check more info: <a href="http://www.kranky.net/">http://www.kranky.net/</a><br />
More Grouper songs from Soundcloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tags/grouper">https://soundcloud.com/tags/grouper</a><br />
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<b>Hudson Mohawke</b> - <i>"Chimes"</i> Mohawkees are some of of my favorite bands what it comes to crazy synth disco/trap music. Keep it dope! Plus the image on the track cover is awesome!<br />
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More Hudson Mohawke at SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hudsonmohawke">Hudson Mohawke SoundCloud</a><br />
Hudson Mohawke Official: <a href="http://hudsonmohawke.com/chimesrmx/" target="_blank">Hudson Mohawke</a><br />
Hudson Mohawke FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hudsonmohawke" target="_blank">Hudson Mohawke FB</a><br />
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<b>Jacques Greene</b> - <i>"No excuse (Yung Gud VIP rmx)"</i> is a cool club dance'ish song. At least I would like to dance to this in a nice club. Plus the base is great!<br />
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More Jacques Greene on SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jacquesgreene" target="_blank">Jacques Greene SoundCloud</a><br />
Jacques Greene Official: <a href="http://jacquesgreene.com/" target="_blank">Jacques Greene Official</a><br />
Jacques Greene FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JacquesGreene"><cite class="_Rm">Jacques Greene FB</cite></a><br />
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<b>Lv and Joshua Idehen - </b><i>"Imminent" </i>Joou! Listen this song and get your swag on!<br />
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More Lv and Joshua Idehen: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lvlvlv" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/lvlvlv</a><br />
Lv and Joshua Idehen FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thisisLV" target="_blank">LV and Joshua Idehen FB</a><br />
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<b>Mo Kolours</b> - <i>"Little Brown dog"</i> The song name says it all! A nice summer chilling song, plus I love the steel drums!<br />
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Mo Kolours bandcamp: <a href="http://mokolours.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Mo Kolours bandcamp</a> Free album downloads!!<br />
Mo Kolours FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mokolours">Mo Kolours FB</a><br />
Mo Kolours: <a href="http://onehandedmusic.com/artist/mokolours/" target="_blank">Mo Kolours</a><br />
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<b>Planningtorock</b> -<i>"Human drama"</i> some of my favorite artists. And she's still great!<br />
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Planningtorock webpage: <a href="http://planningtorockofficial.com/">Planningtorock Official</a><br />
Planningtorock SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/planningtorock" target="_blank">Planningtorock SoundCloud</a><br />
Planningtorock FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PLANNINGTOROCK" target="_blank">Planningtorock FB</a><br />
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<b>Randomer</b> - <i>"Stupid things I do (new school mix)"</i> I actually listened quite some time ago Randomer and used one of his songs in one performance. I loove that base! Dance shoes on! Great artist!<br />
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Randomer SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/randomer" target="_blank">Randomer SoundCloud</a><br />
Randomer FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rohanrandomer?fref=ts" target="_blank">Randomer FB</a><br />
Randomer RA: <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/randomer" target="_blank">Randomer resident advisor</a><br />
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<b>Sophie</b> - <i>"Lemonade"</i> This song is just totally nuts. Nuts! I won't say how the beginning of the song sounds to me, but well listen yourself! You get this song if you mix really bad pop song lyrics with crazy nice base<i>. </i>I love the mix of this crazyness!<br />
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<i>"I got something to tell you<br />
hope you'll understand<br />
I never meant to hurt you<br />
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everythings okay<br />
I get that thirsty feeling<br />
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lemonade, l-l-lemonade (lemonade, l-l-lemonade)<br />
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Sophie Soundcloud (more crazy shit): <a href="https://soundcloud.com/msmsmsm" target="_blank">Sophie SoundCloud</a><br />
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<b>Toumani Diabate & Sidiki Diabate</b> -<i> "Rachid Ouiguini" </i>But I took <i>"Salimou"</i> which was in the SoundCloud. Some really cool african music! I highly recommed this duo, it's a father and a son.<br />
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FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/toumanidiabatemusic" target="_blank">Toumani & Sidiki FB</a><br />
World circuit records: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/worldcircuitltd">https://www.youtube.com/user/worldcircuitltd</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-58660072479771470692015-01-18T18:24:00.004+01:002015-01-18T18:37:32.108+01:00..don't you know you're worthy more than the bathroom floor in the end of the nightIt's 2015! Happy New Year to all you who are reading Noisy (Noise out of nothing is so long word so just came up with this one)! I will promise at least one thing for this year; to find better techno parties! I have been let down some times even in Berlin when going to some techno parties and finding out that the music isn't that good or that the sets which the DJ's are playing have bad quality (are skipping/jumping..) I would like to go to a real rave party, but waiting for that I shall not complain anymore, anyhow's there's plenty of parties in Berlin to attend to and I haven't seen all of them the yet.<br />
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First to get rid of one positive earworm or "Ohrwurm" as the Germans would say.<br />
I found the song because <b>Susanne Sundför</b> is soon realeasing a new album and I saw this remix on her Soundcloud and checked it and fell in love with the song. The song is called <i>"My friend"</i> and it is from <b>Sasha Siem</b> (Norwegian-British). It has beautiful lyrics. Siem will also soon release her debut album..so be ready! <br />
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The second remix of the same song is done by <b>Cloud boat</b>, it has more original lyrics left and is more upbeat like the original song also.<br />
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And of course the original by Sasha Siem:<br />
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Sasha Siem: <a href="http://www.sashasiem.com/">Sasha Siem homepage</a><br />
And SoudCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sashasiem">Sasha Siem SoundCloud</a><br />
FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sashasiem?fref=ts">Sasha Siem FB</a><br />
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Then back to some techno. I would like to present you Canadian techno artist <b>Marc Houle</b>. I can't remember how I stumbled across with this one, but he makes really good techno. He has some free downloads too which would be good to check out!<br />
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Check at least these songs from the "<b>Cola Party</b>" LP:<i> "I'dont wanna know about you"</i> and <i>"Raybans in Bahrain"</i> with headphones on.<br />
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Homepage: <a href="http://www.marchoule.net/">Marc Houle Official</a><br />
SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/marchoule">Marc Houle SoundCloud</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marchoule.official?fref=ts">Marc Houle FB</a><br />
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And then one other smaller techno artist who resides also in Berlin, <b>Kevin Keath</b>, and makes quite cool minimal techno.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-82865714791161250532014-10-26T19:19:00.001+01:002014-10-26T19:24:32.800+01:00Back!Okay. I should not promise anymore anything here in this blog.. Life happened and I went to Greece for four months. Now back in Berlin. And I would like to write about some lounge music (yes-the proper muzak) because I have now 17 hours of lounge music on my laptop. Well it made people happy at the pool so it was good. Had to choose the last four months which music was to be played at the pool in one hotel. And I would like to write about sleeping concerts. And I would like to write about Greek music and Turkish music. Or about the soon to be released new album of Susanne Sundför. But I'm going to start with an artist who has made some quite kick ass remixes!<br />
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<b>KUNGS</b> is some 17-years old boy from France, don't know his name becase he doesn't mention it at his SoundCloud. I did stumble on this track from him and loaded the free songs via his FB-page. Check the remix of <i>"Jammin"</i> by <b>Bob Marley,</b> it<b> </b>will make you smile, it has such a nice summer vibe in it!<b> </b>I am quite sure we will hear more about this boy later!<br />
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Couple days ago I read about sleep concerts, yes you heard right. To these concerts you take your sleeping bag with you. They last trough the whole night. I have not tried it but would love to go to one. The father behind the idea is <b>Robert Rich</b>, a sound designer and an ambient artist from California. He has released the respectful amount of 30 albums. ...and as I like good ambient music I'm quite interested about this project.</div>
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special events lasting throughout the night which aimed to influence REM
cycle sleep with auditory stimulus. Audiences usually slept through the
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484381619270203262.post-32329736391573709302014-06-12T18:13:00.000+02:002014-06-12T18:16:42.075+02:00No more...laptop problems!I'm done, I have a new laptop so no I will be able to write posts more often! The new album "I never learn" from Lykke Li is out. Have listen it several times already, will write later a review about it. I think somehow I was waiting little bit more from her but it's nice to notice that her music and songs are somehow more mature now.<br />
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The last finding is <b>Thavius Beck</b>, a California based artist. He does awesome trip hop'ish music. This was the first song I heard from him:<br />
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Somehow this song fits especially well to the time we are living now. It made me think and hopefully others too. <i>"Think, act, now."</i> Here is a link to his SoundCloud page:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/thaviusbeck" target="_blank"> https://soundcloud.com/thaviusbeck</a><br />
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This next artist <b>Akkord</b> has pretty cool texture in his songs. It makes me miss bit Berlin.<br />
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Oh I could just link all of his work here... <b>Pangaea</b> is a London based artist. Here is his SoundCloud account: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pangaea">https://soundcloud.com/pangaea</a><br />
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<b>Kassem Mosse</b>, this guy has a cool name and besides that great music too! His music is described as groovy deep house and very groovy it is! The album <i>"Workshop 19"</i> is full of great beats. I wrote down which tracks to check out but ended up having 2/3 of the songs in the list which is a good sign. I'll anyhow put here the list with short descriptions: <i>"A3"</i> is bit slower and stylish, <i>"B1"</i> has killer beats, <i>"B3"</i> has a beginning which reminds somehow Planningtorock, <i>"C1"</i> is beatless with some caribian vibe in it, chill, <i>"C2"</i> has crazy cool vibes in the beginning but then turns into strange mishmash, <i>"D1"</i> has a great dripply beat!<br />
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<b>Dutch E Germ</b> is a Dutch artist aka. Tim De Wit. His mixtape <i>"IN.RAK.DUST" </i>is incredibly diverse and I think the best word to describe the sounds would be space hip hop. Some of the songs have quite Eastern style to them. Check out the whole album but if you don't have the time check at least <i>"Elephant"</i> which is bit more ambient but then oho watch out.., <i>"Nami Nami" </i>(fun part is that nami means candy in Finnish) , <i>"40oz Angel",</i> <i>"Mint Nose"</i> and <i>"Rani"</i>. Maybe bit hard music at first listening but awesome when you get into it.<br />
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If you search house music in Youtube you get usually tons of songs with photos of half naked women with headphones. Well talking about too deep decoltés this one really equals with it! From <b>Distro</b> the <i>"Thug girl EP" </i> brings great house groove to save all the dancefloors. The two songs <i>"Thug girl" </i>and <i>"Deep down"</i> are definitely groovy, not in a slow way but higly danceable! And Distro has a songs labelled under "butch".<br />
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She has also made a song with <b>David Lynch</b> called <i>"I'm waiting here"</i>. In the video a car is driving trough an empty road. Song is slow and has the well known style Lykke Li vocals, but somehow it gets bit cheesy with this video, would have maybe needed some more rawness into it.<br />
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Just after quick browse trought the album I have to admit I was bit dissapointed, was waiting something more daring from him. Now the album seems to stay in one spot and doesn't move along. Though the opening track <i>"Serentipity March"</i> is a great track that leads you into a slow overpowering beat. <i>"Amber decay"</i> is just pure extacy for your ears from the beginning till the end! I love how crunchy this artist makes all the beats and the bass.<br />
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Juke is something new still to me, haven't listened really to it before. But checking out <b>Addison Groove</b> - <i>"Presents Jamie Grieve"</i> is totally worth doing! The quick tempo and cool vocals make the album great to dance to. I would totally imagine this album played around three o' clock in the night. Check the songs <i>"Warped"</i>, <i>"One fall"</i> and "Malus" which is a kinda breathing break in the album. I have always bit trouble with the vocals in electronic music and I'm very very picky if I like them or hate them. In this album the vocals still stay quit cool and don't become the sugary and boring uuhs and oohs. But well if it's ghetto house you can expect that too..<br />
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Tribal music is also quite new for me. But I think <b>DrumTalk </b>could be a nice way to introduce people to tribal style techno. The album "Time" has two tracks <i>"Time"</i> and <i>"Magnetic"</i>. These both tracks would be good tracks for a beginning to get people on the dance floor because of the catchy drum lines.<br />
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<b>Bass Clef</b> has a new album out called <i>"Bugbranded"</i>. First time ever listening to this artist and must say it's cool, hard to listen perhaps but still catchy. I could listen endlessly the beginning beats of <i>"Sometimes the only way out is to go"</i>. <i>"Faster than the speed of love"</i> has a arcade vibe into it, but it takes it into a new level instead of staying in the bleeps and cracks.<br />
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<b>Rainer Veil</b> does bit Burial inspired music, the album<i> "New Brutalism"</i> sounds like the chilled out version of Burial. Check out the songs <i>"UK will not survive" </i>and <i>"Strangers"</i>. Check out the great live set from the Boiler room under here:<br />
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The third album if I now remember right from <b>Planningtorock </b>called <i>"All love's legal"</i>. The songs <i>"Misogny drop dead"</i> and <i>"Patriachy over and out"</i> were the first one I heard, might have a oppoturnity to go to see her gig soon. Was at one club evening where she was DJ'ing and got to say that she's good also as a dj! We wil for sure hear more from this artist!<br />
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The debut album from the New Zealander <b>Lorde</b> <i>"Pure heroine"</i> became a huge thing all over. This 17-year old girl has a talent and we will for sure also hear from her later more. Her debut album is a very strong one and bringing some new fresh ideas. It's not r'n'b but it's not either just pop. And what shines trough the whole album is the great vocals, like in the big hit <i>"Royals"</i>.<br />
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Also got bit stuck with one great tune from <b>Colleen</b>, who's work I'm only bit familiar. On the first litening I didn't like it so much but when I found this song it was done, I love this song, how soothing it is while still being not so friendly. It was from this contortion video of <b>Samatha Halas</b> that I picked the song from.</div>
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The XX came also with a new album <i>"Coexist"</i> which turned out to be great training music. I still love the guitar, bass and vocals in it but somehow i get the feeling how long this band can ride on the same wave? It doesn't take anything away from the new album but in the future I'm interested into which way they will go.</div>
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I once long time ago wrote something shortly about <b>Sofia Jannok</b>, but gonna write now a bit longer post about her, because she is quite amazing artist. Sofia Jannok is a Swedish Sami person. Sami people are the indigenous people of North Scandinavia who live in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Sami people have their own language and different dialects, own flag and own governing system, but have the currency of the country they live in and speak often also the language of the country they live in. Sami people have been opressed for very long time, though they were the first being in these countries. Nowadays they have big problems when big mining companies, often foreign ones, are buying their land. That messes up everything, because reindeer herding is important income for the sami people.<br />
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A new album came this year from Jannok and it's called <i>Áhpi</i>. I have been listening it already so many times, but still love it. The songs are bit meditative sometimes. The music brings you really into the North and you can feel the same feeling when you are outside and are surrounded by a lot of snow. It is also nice that almost all the songs are in Sami language.<br />
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I found this handy page if you are looking for concerts in churches in Berlin/Germany. It lists quite many of them, definitely going to head up some Saturday evening to Berliner Dom to attend a concert. Berliner Dom is anyhow extremely big and I think it will be awesome! I'll post more about it after a concert, hopefully soon!<br />
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