Eat Your Heart Out

Germany overtakes the UK to become Europe’s largest music market by Gavin Blackburn The release of the annual “Recording Industry in Numbers” by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) revealed that Germany ranks ahead of the UK in physical music sales. Low digital penetration, a healthy CD market and a stable economy have [...]

Artrocker Magazine will run the “first ever online music festival” in May! VAGABONDO 2009 Over 4 virtual stages will run a program on the magazine’s website www.artrocker.tv from May 25. Artrocker magazine invited a selection of bands to a studio to create original recordings for the festival. The sessions can be streamed or downloaded for [...]

Hello to the Sound Unbound crew! I’m just writing to say a basic hi and to give you a tiny update about what’s been going on! It’s been a while since we all corresponded about Sound Unbound, and there have been many developments. We’ve had highly successful book launches everywhere from Melbourne, Toronto, Vienna, Capetown, [...]

We hope you had a great start into the new week! Monday was so full of optimism in Berlin-West. yeah… we are so glad we don’t need to go to school anymore…do you remember how it felt? A great day is passing by and some teacher trying to teach you a lesson about something outdated [...]

ALEC EMPIRE TALKS WITH GRAHAM AND TOLLY, THE TWO MEN BEHIND ADDICTIVE TV! click here to watch Alec:”Please quickly describe for us…what is it that you do? Exactly? ” Graham:” Well, we’re producers and audiovisual artists, a music act but we work with film too if that makes sense – I guess kind of ?think [...]

ENTERTAINMENT AND PAIN. an interview with Miron Zownir regarding his film ‘Phantomanie’. Preview Screening during “Transducers! Festival” in Berlin at Tresor on 12th of February 2009 was a success. We posted a German interview a few days ago. This is the translation by M.A.Littler.   After several attempts you have now made your first feature [...]

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 [...]

A MAZE.JUMP ‘N RUN 03: A MAZE. pr?sentiert am Mittwoch den 10.Dezember zwei Klassiker in einem neuen Gewand. Der K?nstler ‘telematique’ verbindet ‘Pong’, die Mutter aller Computerspiele mit Videotechnik und zaubert die Spieler ‘INSIDE PONG’. Somit hat der Spieler nicht nur das Spiel, sondern auch sich selbst im Blick. ‘extrajetzt?’ hat sich ‘Snake’, dem Dinosaurier [...]

  Writer Nathan Meunier interviewed Alec Empire about his Gameboy album which originally was released in 1998. Since then game boy music has really developed into a genre of its own. We had some request from subscribers to re-publish the interview as it is hard to find on the internet.   ALEC EMPIRE ON “WE [...]

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 [...]

?I think it brings a lot of creative potential for the music industry, not just for the club. It has already proved its potential in museums and in cinemas and this is an experiment in a club. It?s new technology but I think it?s a start and I am happy that it takes place at [...]