With this hour of quality music you can expect songs from new names Flying lotus and Dorian Concept but also the more classic stuff like the legendary Aphex Twin or Jazzanova. Tracklist is below but for now enjoy, and let me know what you think of it!
The compilation is available HERE
2-D version of Icelandic diva’s epic storybook video “Wanderlust”
Nine months of blood, sweat and toil by Ghost Robot and UVPH to do this 2-d versoin for Björks wanderland. Directed by Encyclopedia Picutra aka Isiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch which website you definitely should check out! here the link. The 3D version of the 7.5 minute 2K epic is released as part of a boxed set complete with 3D glasses. So look out for that.
In the video Björk makes a spiritual journey, with the wild river depicting the path she takes. At the start she is being helped by a herd of yaks but she is also obstructed by something that grows from out of her back. That ’Painbody Backpack’ seems like a metaphor for all the negative emotions that she want to get rid of at this trip. But what blow’s me away the most is the art direction from Encyclopedia Pictura. The video is a combination of computer generated images and puppetry. The result is a fantastic mountain landscape with a river that seems made of spaghetti. Underway Björk meets many mystical creatures and ultimately she is being swallowed by the river what looks liberating although i’m not sure what her true aim is here. Anyway, check that vid out! And support experimental artists..
Sorry it took so long before a new post came in the series ..
This summer holiday we (myself and two friends) did a little interrail trip from Valencia(spain) to Istanbul(Turkey) and a dozen city in between.. And because we had such a long train ride before us, I made us a nice mix to listen to for when we would stare outside to the beautiful landscape!. Originally I was posting this before we would leave, but I underestimated the time it took to get all things organised. So here it is yet: some ambient soundscapes for your ears; FAR AWAY TRAINS PASSING BY .. enjoy
Ps. if you wanna see some pictures I took along the way, check them out HERE
Don’t get offended if you like the mix. It’s just a title haha..
Here the newest of the series: Funk For Nerds, download it HERE.
After posting a early version some days ago, now a better one is available here! This won’t be the lastest adjustment probably.. so if you think you miss something let me know and maby it wil be in there.
For the new tracklist read further.
Enjoy for now
J.
For the third edition of Heineken Refreshing Sound Sessions the organization took Mocky & Jazzanova from the German capital for some on spot remixing! They chosed Ekko, a place with modest pricing and friendly staff (all volunteers) which makes you feel good rightaway! Before entering the club three Daft Punk-lookalikes (black catsuits) kept you from passing thru and only with a plastic dropcard you can enter. The access code on the back is for downloading later on.
Last wednesday we went to the opening of the amsterdam fantasy film festival!
The whole festival is taking place at Tuschinski, the most beautiful movie theater we got..
Actually, I just wanted to see The Fall but there was a ceremony before that..
First a royal award for the Festivaldirecteur and founder Jan Doense, then a award for Tim Burton who was granted a Career Achievement Award and also was the Guest of honour this years festival.
That was nice and all but I was here just for two reasons: 5 Centimeter Per Second and The Fall! So let me give you my reviews..
This will be the first guest mix I’ll put out here.
It’s from a good friend of mine aka The Abstract. We first met in collage some five years ago I think. We both studied Graphic Design in Utrecht. Soon we became close friends, mostly because of our same pasion for good music! And from that day on we went to like every concert there was in holland and I have to say it was a good time!
Last year he moved to birmingham and we didn’t spoke each other all that much. But when he found out about my site and the mixes I did he immideatly wanted to do one of his own. This came out into a work you can get here. It’s a tribute to the producer that inspires us both: the great J Dilla. let him rest in peace!
I myself did some Yancey tributes sum’ time ago. Maby i’ll up them if you ask nicely. Check them out here:
Part 1. Part 2.
Friday seven march alien the palien gave us a next-level night out at the Artis Planetarium (part of amsterdams Zoo Artis) named: Nachtsalon. After nights at Energetica, Statemuseum and Citymuseum this is already the ninth edition of this ongoing exploration through cultural amsterdam! If you couldn’t be there you missed out sum’ once in a lifetime stuf.
Hear this: a party in a dome theater, starting with a fantastic look at the solar system, a great audio and video installment which created a beautiful three-dimensional image that make you feel like your into space itself! Then a video artist doing his self created spontaneous fantasia video experience, a sciencejournalist braggin, a DJ djeeing and two producers who took over the planetarium for one night!
Starting off with a performance of Govert Schilling who did his thing which include braggin about the fact that a planet is named after the men haha. Next Yuro & Trago a dutch DJ-Duo who in there performance left behind daft punk in lightyears and did a set that included an animated remix of a image similar to what you can see here. KC Funkaholic (from kindred-Spirits) did where he is good at and then they brought out J. Walt a oscar winning artist and programmer from LA who is behind this fantastic video-art-experience! He did five performances which all consisted of him drawing on a tablet while using a slider to manipulate the camera angles and movement. Really a new and fantastic experience! Love it.
I remain lazy! Staying in bed until an hour or three. Got sum’ appointments but got them all canceled, now I got the siuation handled.
Get out of bed and take my caffeine, protein. Whatever the case be I remain lazy. Negativity today won’t phaze me. I’m not bluffing, I’m trying to tell you something. Today I’ma do absolutely nothing. Ignoring my phone and all it’s messages, today motivation is the only thing I lack. Lying on the couch, bag of chips on my belly.. should take a shower but won’t, even though I’m smelly. Every minute of relaxation that I can squeeze in, I will. Chilled is the mode I’m in. Nodding of need to piss but I’m holding in. I hop in my bed and then I start to grin, thinking tomorrow I should be sleeping in. Dreamin’ on the couch with my feet up.
Cause man, I’m lazy!
Remain lazy-daizy. Tune in: here, here or here you crazy.
Jazzyjazz.
Time is like a river that flows, but that river is me!
Jorge Luis Borge (1899 – 1986)
In contrast to (most) animals, humans have the ability to be aware of themselves, the time of the past, the present and the future.
“Everything we do and everything we don’t do is connected to a dimension in time. We live in time, we share time. We are its product, and its creator.”
Same goes for our perceptions and thoughts, which is what our consciousness exists of. But is that ‘time’ where in or where true we live is something like a continuous river or simply a overload of impressions following each other separately, just like many loose segments make one chain?
One thing is clear, we experience our consciousness as a continuous stream not in separate pieces. It’s feels like we glide from one though to another without interruption, although the content of our thoughts is changing all the time.
Henri Bergson formulated it into something like this: We take pictures from the passing reality and stick them together. It’s like in a movie: numerous pictures following each other quickly. We experience those movies as real life because we self split time and reality like a camera and paste them together to make it appear as a continuous film.
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