Julie, thank you for the picture!I have to admit: I really love that place. My flatmates just ran off to make their first visit to Cookies but this time I be a good boy and stay home. Science wants me tomorrow. But since the opening party two months ago, I guess I have been there six or seven times and it has always been great. Seeing people I do not normally meet, enjoying the special, hedonistic atmosphere and listening to really great music.

I danced to Sebo K, Acid Maria, Shir Khan, Carsten Kleeman, Clé.. and the sound has majorly improved and now fills the old cinema with bombastic waves of bass and melody. Almost every night there is a band, pretty unknown mostly, deep and sometimes experimental. It’s an interesting climax because after the show, it’s like the party begins. Enjoy some more fotos after the click and that’s enough for the promotion right now.

Roll Deep is probably the most famous Grime crew – Dizzie Rascal was part of it, Whiley still is and they are deeply connected with the pirate radio scene. But despite having sold 60000 units of their first album “In at the deep end” so far, and playing liveshows with people like Snoop Dogg in the UK, Asia, Europe, e.g. Grimetime in Berlin, nobody there can afford a us-rapstarlike lifestyle – the 13 members predominantly still live in East-London’s housing estate “The estate”. Still. That might change. (Click for their new video)

Because they are about to release their second album “Rules and regulations”, distributed mainly on their Myspacesite. And again they manage to combine this typical grime flow with tales from the streets and melodies that stick. They sport many different talents on entertaining tracks (beyond them: Scratchy, one of the few white grime MCs which makes for some nice target group optimization.. No offence, he’s good!) So this is their new single “Celebrate that”:

Update: Prancehall (aka the “Terry Richardson of Grime”) was at the shoot for the video and tells a little something about what was going on behind the scenes.

Roll Deep are aware of the responsibility popular musicians have towards their own fans: Especially in the face of the growing violence in the UK, their video “Bad man” is a documentary-like focus on the suburbian situation when guns, frustration and heated up situations come to a bad end. Here’s the making of:

Und noch ein bisschen deutscher Kulturjournalismus – Here’s a nice visit in Eastlondon, a journey to the Roll Deep studio and their hood “The estate”: Roll deep in London by Süddeutsche (in German)

[Inspiration by Playrough]

Smells like hits: Swedish producers with their unimitable talent to combine underground and mainstream. Clubtunes, optimized to the maximum sound, bouncy and driving, strange vocal hooks and a shiny neorave design. I hear Candi Staton meet Steve Bug, Detroit Grand Pubahs and French influences like Cassius or Ed Banger – check out The Inflitrators. Fits perfectly to this webfinding: Mikeys party on Last nights party.

“The team behind always outsiders, never outdone, the unofficial prodigy remixed album, and flip the switch, the unofficial chemical brothers remixed album, have turned their attention to one of their favourite artists of the last few years – lcd soundsystem.”

Go download the full LCD remix album there: LCD remixed.com
[via Netzpolitik]

Tom from Musicthing made a nice video of many Daft Punk songs with the according original samples. He, in turn, was inspired by Palms Out Sounds who posted more than ten orginal songs that habe been used by Daft Punk for their hits.

This mp3 made my day. Easy, dubby, sublimely powerful, just right to start a tough week.
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It’s from Up, Bustle & Out’s 8th album Mexican sessions and I found it on the cool dubsite Collision aka dub-music.de.

(Noch was zum Thema Befindlichkeitsbloggen, einfach nur weil ich den Spruch so nett finde: Wenn man das “Bei mir bitte nicht mehr” des Kassierers persönlich nimmt, hat man definitiv einen sensiblen Tag.. )

This mp3 made my day. Easy, dubby, sublimely powerful, just right to start a tough week.
Download audio file (03_UBAO_Day_At_The_Bookies.mp3)
It’s from Up, Bustle & Out’s 8th album Mexican sessions and I found it on the cool dubsite Collision aka dub-music.de.
(Noch was zum Thema Befindlichkeitsbloggen, einfach nur weil ich den Spruch so nett finde: Wenn man das “Bei mir bitte nicht mehr” des Kassierers persönlich nimmt, hat man definitiv einen sensiblen Tag.. )

This video is already a classic on Youtube and one of the most viewed music clips. Little kids come to their teachers with this, wanting to play like little Tony Royster who was apparently only 12 years old when he played this solo. Since then, 10 years have passed, Tony has received many awards for his drumming and now plays with a rock group called Lazy Eye.

Kompakt is the label that even more than all other great ones (like Karaoke Kalk, Substatic or Treibstoff) built the “minimal-fame of Cologne”, also with their big distribution network they smartly built over the last years. I personally don’t own any Kompakt records but their DJs sure deserve the popularity. One of its protagonists is Tobias Thomas who is also a music theorist (or journalist) for German pop magazine SPEX.

He plays regularly in Berlin’s Panorama bar and has gigs all over the world. In his mixes he is not so minimal at all, but has a nice feel for some pop, elegiac and hands up moments. Enjoy the following mix (which is not always tight and perfect but very warmhearted and with the real club feeling to it) which was recorded at Kiosk Club in Lille in 2006 and is kindly hosted by Dviason.

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I found this mix via the highly remarkable Dj mixes collection Drogensumpf aka <3 Electro – an almost too overwhelming amount of DJ mixes.

Just the other day I listened to one of my favourite albums: Solarscape and Starmarket. Indiemusic, but intense and somtimes complicated, a little melancholic, but not naive, full of power and surprises. And I thought, too bad, it’s been long that I didn’t find music like this.
Now, “Pictures of Shanghai” wanted to add me on Myspace and seriously, I am a little annoyed by the mass of bad music and disturbing mass bulletings á la “new mp3 online!” that I stopped adding bands. But listening to them made me feel like the other day when I turned the volume up and had the perfect rainy but angry weather soundtrack. Please check out Pictures of Shanghai and if you have a label, sign them, they are going to be succesful.