Melt! Festival 2009 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau.
Few people know that Ferropolis/Graefenhainichen is located in a former coalmining region, Wittenberg, and during GDR years the nearby chemistry industry caused remarkably severe pollution.
This area was known as Bitterfeld. Nowadays, the environment seems natural and clean, a lot has been done to make it a surrounding worth living in. Lakes, woods, leasure sites, you can all find it here. Regarding to the press, the industry focusses on solar engineering and renewable energy.
We also find a very high unemployment rate and vanishingly few young people – They all moved to the cities or to the western part of Germany.
Naaaah, talking schmalking: It still is a nice place. You got the picture.
Here are the photos:
Click here to open the Melt! 2009 set on Flickr
Jul 25
… but today I feel I should give back some love to them.
Ronald Jenkees just starts his fifteen minutes of fame. Holy cheesy goodness, this is a tearquenching melody:
Feb 03
These two artists are - in my humble opinion - blueprinting the next musical season:
CSS [Cansei de ser sexy - Tired ofbeing sexy] from Sao Paulo, who named themselves from a Beyoncee quote.
CSS music is a messed-up toybox, a theme park. On MySpace the band categorizes itself as “Grunge, Regaae, Melodramatic Pop Songs” which for me just describes nothing. They are just blending any pop style they can find – thank god including electronic music. I’d categorize them under Do it yourself. If you do not like this pop song, check some of their remixes.
I see a lot of parallels to the foolishness of bedroom mashup superstar Girl Talk, you remember: The guy who plastic wraps his laptop during shows to save it from his own sweat.
Listen to this [follow the links]:
Dec 06
Dec 01
Que privilegio: I am on soundcloud.com now! This platform is a great way to share your music with the world. Not onlyfor downloading the files: In soundcloud, any member can comment directly to his favorite passages of a track. There are more common community functions inside.
Drop me a line if you like to join: I have two invites left.
Check out this mouthwatering Remix by TJ Kong:
Ben Mono – Jesus Was A B-boy [TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos Remix]:
Sounds great? Here’s a TJ Kong Promo DJ set:
Read this statement of the Soundcloud scientists, Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss:
As you might expect, over the years we’ve grown tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks. Not to mention how annoying it is to try and email a reply with some comprehendible feedback. Music is just kind of tricky to deal with over email. So, we thought we’d change that. SoundCloud is our way of doing it.
Jul 29
Melt! Festival July 18th – 20th, 2008 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau. Remarkable setting and mind blowing acts: Goldie, Whitest Boy alive, Booka Shade, Roisin Murphy, Mode Selector, Gus Gus, Hot Chip, Björk and many many more.
Click here for the whole Flickr Set and higher picture quality.
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It was a strange mix of sunshine and thunderstorm, but though a lot of fun. We were privileged to camp directly on the festival site, the permanant beats in our ears. I had a flu and a sore throat – but it was worth it after all.
Enjoy for the moment.
Jul 26
Melt!, the Indie & Electro Festival organised by Intro Magazine, now uses widget marketing, just like Daft Punk did in October last year. Widget Marketing might come in disguise of a microsite that is embeddable by a simple HTML code snippet.
The Melt! widget looks like that:
Cool stuff.
Why is it so effective and widespread within the new web landscape?
- This form of viral marketing provides an extremely good ROI based on the resources available. Your embedders become your marketing team.
- Widgets may take time and manpower to develop, but the deployment and embedding cost nothing.
Jun 23
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