VA – Krautrock: music for your brain vol.1-3 1968-80

Target Music / 2009

Massive compilation, 3 volume x 6 cd-uri (pass: phrockblog.blogspot.com)

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Posted in de-dans, download on March 3rd, 2010 by de-dans | 14 Comments

Save or Cancel Mix 09: Andrei Plus (A+)

Save or Cancel si-au reluat seria de mixuri/podcasturi. Noua ne-au cazut ochii pe ultimul.

Save or Cancel Mix Series Volume 09 mixed by – Andrei Plus (A+)

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Posted in de-dans, sets on March 2nd, 2010 by de-dans | 50 Comments

Welcome to the real world by PISI love

Vrand sa sarbatoreasca un an de activitate, fetele de la Pisilove au rugat mai multi dj care au pus la petrecerile lor de-a lungul anului sa aleaga cate o piesa care li se pare reprezentativa pentru 2009. Din piesele astea (tracklist dupa more) date pe mana a doi dj au rezultat urmatoarele viziuni:

see how deep the rabbit hole goes
RED MIX by Logan

the story ends, you wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe
BLUE MIX by Giuser

play after more

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Posted in de-dans, sets on February 25th, 2010 by de-dans | 8 Comments

VA – So Young But So Cold

Tigersushi / 2004 / try / buy

Jacno – Triangle

Bernard Szajner – Welcome (To Deathrow)

Mathematiques Modernes – Disco Rough

Continuam cu o compilatie din aceiasi ani si in acelasi spirit (“They sucked the joy out of disco”), de data asta din Franta, alese de Volga Select adica Ivan Smagghe (Blackstrobe, It’s a Fine Line) + Marc Collin si aparuta la Tigersushi. Impreuna cu postul anterior si cu cel despre Berlin (Wall of Sound), am pus deja de o serie.

Posted in de-dans, download on February 24th, 2010 by de-dans | 4 Comments

VA – Minimal Wave Tapes

Minimal Wave / ianuarie 2010 / try / buy

Oppenheimer Analysis – Radiance

Esplendor Geometrico – Moscu Esta Helado

Deux – Game & Performance

Minimal Wave, un nume nou* pentru inceputurile New Wave-ului, atunci cand sintetizatorul suna ca un sintetizator, drum machine-ul tinea pe do si tot ce iti mai trebuia era o voce dramatica si 3 citate din intelectualii vremii (francezi, biensur).  Vremuri cand muzica se transmitea pe casete prin posta la adrese de pe CLEM (Contact List Of Electronic Music), “the fanzine that started it all”. Nici nu imi dau seama care ar fi corespondentul in inovatie si coolness al muzicii asteia in ziua de azi. Se mai aplica? De ascultat chiar daca nu o sa va placa, macar o sa va faca sa va simtiti mai bine. Si mai snobi.

* aka Minimal Electronic, Minimal Synth, Cold Wave, New Wave, Techno pop, Synthpop

20 BEST MINIMAL WAVE by FACT magazine

Posted in de-dans, download on February 23rd, 2010 by de-dans | 4 Comments

Why so serious?

WHY SO SERIOUS? How the classical concert took shape by Alex Ross (The New Yorker)

“The problem isn’t that the modern way of giving concerts has grown hopelessly decrepit, as some say; it’s that music has for too long been restricted to a single, almost universally duplicated format. If the idea is to treat composers as serious artists, then concerts must become significantly more flexible, in order to accommodate the myriad shapes of music of the past thousand years. Superbly polished as today’s performances are, I sometimes get the feeling that the classics are a force more contained than unleashed, and that new works might still produce the tremendous effect that Beethoven had on Berlioz’s old music master at a concert in Paris: “When I came out of the box and tried to put on my hat, I could not find my own head.”

Classic goes Clubbing by Andreas Bick (silentlistening)

“Today, the bourgeois culture itself is aching under the pressure of popular culture and mass consumption leading to a situation with diclining and overaged audiences that is often described as a crisis of classical music. An answer to this situation is to open up the classical concert to a younger and hipper audience and bring the music to the places where they usually celebrate their musical rituals, the trendy in-clubs of metropolitan life.”

Posted in de-dans, dezbateri on February 22nd, 2010 by de-dans | 10 Comments

Under Ice

Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets

“I made this sound recording of a frozen lake in the winter of 2005/06 in the area around Berlin. Frozen lakes are known to give off most noise during major fluctuations in temperature: the ice expands or contracts, and the resulting tension in the ice causes cracks to appear. Due to the changes in temperature, the hours of morning and evening are usually the best times to hear these sounds. In my experience, thin ice is especially interesting for acoustic phenomena; it is more elastic and sounds are propagated better across the surface. Snowfall, on the other hand, has a muffling effect and the sound can only travel to a limited extent. The ice sheet acts as a huge membrane across which the cracking and popping sounds spread. Underwater microphones proved especially well-suited for these recordings: in a small hole drilled close beneath the surface of the water, the sounds emitted by the body of ice carry particularly well. The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths.” silentlistening.wordpress.com

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Posted in de-dans, outfun on February 22nd, 2010 by de-dans | 3 Comments