Game Soundtrack | Julian Winters "Rock Art EP" is the official soundtrack for an online game called "Alchemia". His EP combines songs and field recordings. "I hardly can remember all the 'instruments' I used for this music", writes Julian Winter on his website. "I think there were brittle wooden sticks, leaves, stones and all the other things you can find in a good wood!" All together we get a unique soundtrack which takes us on a journey into some underground caves with dwarfes and...
Video | "Seeds" by Candlestickmaker is one of my favorite IDM-albums of the past. His new follow-up called "A Life in a Day" isn't that much melodic, lollypop and colourful and I don't know yet, if I like it. Please taste it yourself on Upitup.
But... The video for the song "Take Me Elsewhere" is just one thing: Incredible!
I can't get the impression out of my head, that Candlestickmaker cooperated here with some one from the demoscene - to be precise icecream-xtruder. If you are a collector as I am, be fast and download the original mpg-file coming along with the album (have a look into the txt-file).
Life rush rhythm, succes of p2p exchange comunities, increasing broadband capacity, extendeduse of mobile phones, constant development ofpersonal multimedia devices... These and many otherfactors affect the relation between cultural productsand consumers. Cultural dematerialization or the loss of the medium, generate a new context where allagents related to cultural production tend to see theirusual activity at least, slightly modified.
Based on a three part format: exhibition, participation and networing, EXPANDING09 offers an open space to share experiences, services andtools; spread and discuss strategies, requestcollaboration o expose necessities, spreadingsinergies among participants: we want to sharecreativity and promote collaborative culture. There will be video shows, projects presentations, anetworking area, a collaborative lab/talk, a netlabelfair, concerts, an interactive installation and muchmore!
Jahtari Tribute | While publishing our Jahtari-Portrait some days ago, I thought: "Why not making a mixtape with my favorite Jahtari-anthems?" After some digging through the whole back catalogue I finished my studies of the mighty echo chambers of Jahtari. I rolled you a wonderful spliff of smokey Dub Reggae anthems. Take care, Jahtari might blast you away into bits and pieces of colourful 8-Bit-powered reggae music with dubby sounds and a massive bass. Push up ya lighta, for disrupt and his posse!
Video | More and more netlabels experiment with video clips and make their own productions more visible. A new netlabel joining the video club is Peppermill Records. For the album "You Must Hide Your Love Forever" by Bakers at Dawn they offer now "a simple but nice" clip for the song called:
Niches can be cool. Especially when you’re the star of one. Even better when you dug it out from nothing all by yourself. Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt, label head of Jahtari.org, is the star of his own genre. He refines a bulky sub-bass sound with an oldschool 8-bit charm. He calls it simply: Digital Laptop Reggae.
Life rush rhythm, succes of p2p exchange comunities, increasing broadband capacity, extendeduse of mobile phones, constant development ofpersonal multimedia devices... These and many otherfactors affect the relation between cultural productsand consumers. Cultural dematerialization or the loss of the medium, generate a new context where allagents related to cultural production tend to see theirusual activity at least, slightly modified.
