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YES! 2009 ! YEAR OF CHANGE!

…we were so busy partying…so
HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR!
While music journalists in Germany are wondering what happened to pop music (yes, we said it years ago. In a globalized economy national pop music is becoming less relevant every year. Music , after all, is not that different to the rest of the economy.) , we [...]

January 3rd, 2009
Topic: EYHO label, alec empire, alec empire's journal, atari teenage riot, dance on the vulcan, did you know that ?, digital hard-core, everything is politics, just cool, nic endo, on tour, the hellish vortex
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WOULD YOU GIVE THIS MAN A LOAN? YES YOU WOULD!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10019

December 17th, 2008
Topic: alec empire's journal, did you know that ?
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CHANGE REALITY INSTEAD OF JUST ACCEPTING IT

RJDJ IN BERLIN FRIDAY 12TH!!!!!
We assume you already know or at least heard of RJDJ for the iPhone. Like so many apps it’s hard to explain (no. it’s easy to explain), what we are trying to say is that until you experienced it, it’s hard to imagine.
Most apps are just fun…not more not less…but we [...]

December 9th, 2008
Topic: dance on the vulcan, did you know that ?, just cool, technology
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THINKSYNC FILMS LAUNCHES ITS 4TH ANNUAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION ON 1ST DECEMBER 2008


ThinkSync Films launches its 4th annual short film competition on 1st December 2008
ThinkSync Films has established itself as bringing together the independent film and music industries in a unique and innovative way and after three successful years, it now launches its short film competition for the fourth time. Fifty tracks drawn from the catalogues of [...]

December 1st, 2008
Topic: caught on film, did you know that ?
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BEFORE THE DESTROYER THERE WAS : BASS TERROR

JOIN AND WIN THE COMPETITION!

click here
December 1st Release of superbag Bass Terror 2xCD (20tracks) !

Join the competition now!

and win :
the full set (including 2xCD, Hoody, dog tag etc.)
or
the 2xCD plus “Bass Terror” dog tag
or
limited edition “Bass Terror” dog tag !!!!!!!!!!!

To participate just become a myspace friend of
www.myspace.com/bassterrorberlin
AND
register with www.eyho-blog.com

The winners will be announced [...]

November 22nd, 2008
Topic: alec empire, atari teenage riot, bass terror competition, did you know that ?, dj feature, music articles, posts with digital audio
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JUSTICE FAKING THEIR LIVE SETS

click here to connect to outrageous beatport article
electronic music is always pre-programmed to a certain extend….any musician who is not improvising completely has prepared material for a concert. (yes, you rock fools, your idols live pre-programmed rock’n’roll careers. birth/hangover/ too drunk too fuck/ slave record deal/ death)
we can only comment…if you give enough monkeys a [...]

November 21st, 2008
Topic: concert reviews, did you know that ?
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TWO UNFORTUNATE GIRLS WERE JINXED TO LIVE AS MONSTERS

“Scylla & Charybdis”: This new release by Christoph de Babalon is dedicated to two unfortunate girls from Greek mythology. Once beautiful nymphs, both were jinxed to live their life as monsters.
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To describe his melancholic viewpoint of their fate, he chose the long forgotten romantic art of the Symphonic Poem. Influenced by works such as Arnold [...]

October 28th, 2008
Topic: album reviews, did you know that ?, digital hard-core, just cool
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SHE SHOULD SO GET PAUL VAN DYKE’S SATURDAY SLOT

in berlin we love radio….we just love it…
when you watch German TV, it’s like seeing grass grow…so uninspiring, so bad….
DJ Diana Frankovic keeps banging out one great program after the other!
while too many radio DJs think too local in this city and hardly use their imagination, she puts together a great selection of tracks.
Our opinion [...]

October 27th, 2008
Topic: did you know that ?, dj feature, just cool, streams and airwaves
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REGIME CHANGE STARTS AT HOME

Hey people! For those of you who might be in and or near Washington D.C. I’d like to extend an invitation to check out a show I’m participating in with an old associate, Shep Fairey. We’re doing a 3 person show at Irvine Contemporary Gallery.
Many of you know me as DJ Spooky, but I started [...]

October 23rd, 2008
Topic: dance on the vulcan, did you know that ?, everything is politics, just cool
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BERLIN IS ON ACID: FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE IS TESTING POPULATION

Welcome to the “Stimmungsbarometer”!
The project Stimmungsgasometer is about a smiley on a huge screen from which one can read the average mood of the Berlin citizens.
The system allows to read emotions out of random peoples faces. The faces are analyzed by sophisticated software (contributed by the Fraunhofer Institut). The obtained mood data are then stored [...]

October 21st, 2008
Topic: artikel auf deutsch, did you know that ?, everything is politics
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THE ACCELERATED CULTURE OF BROKEN BRITAIN

THE ACCELERATED CULTURE OF BROKEN BRITAIN

The term “The Soundtrack of your life” might sound a little clichéd but its relevance shouldn’t be underestimated. A tight, perceptive LP can not only predict shifting musical fashions but can also be an astute commentary of the times.

Blondie’s new wave masterpiece Parallel Lines was a classic of the genre, [...]

October 19th, 2008
Topic: album reviews, did you know that ?, everything is politics, music articles, neale lytollis
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IT WAS LIKE THE LAST DAYS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT IN HERE (BERLIN), YOU CAN MAKE IT EVERYWHERE
“Oh man, Crystal Castles played a fucking insane show at Maria last night!” A friend of mine, literally hopping up and down with excitement, more or less screamed this in my face recently. In fact, had he been any more switched on I [...]

October 17th, 2008
Topic: concert reviews, dance on the vulcan, did you know that ?, everything is politics, music articles, neale lytollis
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SHE WAS A SCULPTOR, A CREATOR – NOT SIMPLY A PROGRAMMER

Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001) is a name virtually unheard of in Germany yet in the UK she remains one of the true pioneers of electronic music.
Derbyshire was born in Coventry and studied mathematics and music at Cambridge. This curious combination no doubt influenced her work as an innovator in the field of bringing logical, scientific approaches [...]

October 17th, 2008
Topic: caught on film, did you know that ?, music articles, neale lytollis, studio gear, technology
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NEW YORK CITY 10-11 9PM DOWN SATAN DOWN!

Our friends from Halo8 and Kings Mob are throwing a party in New York today!
this is for the release of SLUMBER PARTY SLAUGHTERHOUSE: THE GAME !!!!
(with Alec Empire’s song “Down Satan Down” as main theme song by the way)
Masuimi Max is starring in it…she was probably the only reason why we logged into Myspace four [...]

October 11th, 2008
Topic: alec empire, caught on film, dance on the vulcan, did you know that ?, wargames
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