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currently i´m listening all day to the zombies´ "odessey and oracle" and prince´s "purple rain". though so different two of the greatest records ever made, two of the greatest records to make your spring. and according to this dj katzenzungen just mailed me two links that made my day. worth to be shared.

probably one of the greatest shows ever played. james brown, michael jackson & prince on one stage


prince live tv performance

also great though i´m not anymore into mash ups: purple reign. bangers no anthems!

Currently I´m listening over and over again to latest liars record drum´s not dead. If you don´t know or got it yet, buy it, don´t download it. It´s worth. Not only cause of the great graphic design (I have to confess not liking it in the beginning, but loving it now), which is a visual augenschmaus related to mexican technoflyers (Designed by band member Julian Gross, who did also most of the yeah yeah yeahs designs). It also contains a dvd with 3 videoclips for each song (equals 36) directed by band members Angus Andrews, Julian Gross and by formerly Bauhaus student, award winning filmmaker and glitz dj Markus Wambsganss. Also Markus´ clip for liars´ “the other side of mount heart attack” was in my eyes one of the greatest clips in 2005.
There´s so much to write about liars´ work and transformation from hippest dance post punk to avantgard experimental whatever, about consistently being inconsistent and surprise expectations with innovations beyond hype. It´s a record to listen over and over again to get used to and to discover all hidden elements making you wow. But better read the pitchfork review. Or check out liarsliarsliars.com or their myspace site to listen to their tunes. Meantime on my trip through Columbia i´m looking forward meeting some indios, playing them this record to see what happens.

illustration by david shrigley

"nur die halbe welt ist teflon und asbest"
einstürzende neubauten, feurio!

prenzlberg is the peacier kreuzberg. tag der arbeit ain't no shit to us. feiertag your ass. ann et moi will spin 8mm monday 1st of may. who won´t show up is burning cars. who´s riding space kid head cup shall burn.

... great homepage for all tape lovers

drink bacardi like it´s your g-tag! anja (elektrofrau) from schnell und dreckig, mrks and me celebrate our birthdays and italy´s destruction at 8mm bar tomorrow. watch the final there or come over afterwards. we all will spin, same as ann and angus andrew. reason enough? ganz genizzle!
and by the way: return to cookie mountain by tv on the radio is going to be the second best album of the year. read the pitchfork review and get it! not that new though great and still available is the unreleased dry drunk emperor mp3 free download on touch and go.

so, squirrrrrl was over and we spended the last three days watching the whole last season of six feet under. boy, all i can say is .... wow! ... fuck! ... wow! stunning. speachless. still mindfucked. claire fisher, i love you. honestly, i can´t imagine any better tv series ever.



anyway, here´s a pic from deichkind rocking the float at loveparade.




ok something about going out. tonight is the dark side of the broken hearts club. the broken hearts club is an awesome monthly thrown party of people playing there favourite love songs. regularly it´s thrown at this kinky thai whorehouse called my thai, but tonights it´s taking place at this goth bar called last cathedral on schoenhauser allee next to white trash. come over.



while spinning, mrks and me are becoming more and more like an old couple. so it doesn´t happen that often that markus puts on a song making me "wow, what is this?!" but so he did last time, by spinning mek obaam. mek obaam is a berlin based singer songwriter sounding somehow folk. somehow beatles. i don´t know. but it´s awesome and he´ll play kaffee burger tomorrow, friday 28th and i highly recomend it. check out his myspace site or his regular site and listen to different universes on the player.

this big stereo posted some nice mp3 for download this week.

the rapture - "get myself into it" mp3

yeah yeah yeahs - "cheated hearts" (peaches remix x2) mp3



and if you still don´t feel like going out in the sun, the trailer for michel gondry´s last flick the science of sleep is online, starring gael garcia bernal and charlotte gainsbourg. i saw it at last berlinale film festival. it´s wonderful.
and finally a documentary about an issue that had to be done someday is going to be screened. let´s see if hardcore will finally go mainstream in the second half of this decade or is still being stucked as it was last. watch the trailer for american hardcore by paul rachman.

i just survived the illest weekend. including raving on the mediengruppe telekommander & deichkind float on the loveparade and breaking my own neck by wildest headbanging on whomadewho & uffie on same days vice party. ... i still need some time to reflect about this. my ears are still beeping and my neck ... it really still hurts.
but until then here are some actually really nice video clips:



sheena is a parasite by the horrors directed by cunningham, which is truly not that huge thing as you might expect, but it´s just ... really good. actually the more i watch it the more i like it. same as the horrors, who also played vice 1st aniversary party. but i missed them.



mstkrft - work on you. though daft punk did something very similar with interstella 555, you´ll always get me with robots.

Besides this I tried to work on a piece about the so-called indieuniform. Cause a lot of people look the same every year. But actually the kind of style has changed over the last 5 years. Back in 2002 when we did our first documentary for the Festival all the indie kids wore flared jeans, track jackets and into-the-face-combed-hair. But this year - and it already kind of started last year - a new style has risen: Main color is black. Sure. With hair, too. Also boys dye their hair. Kind of messy hair style for some or - en contraire - really exact cuts (have a look at Karen O.'s current haircut). Skinny, slim pants. Really tight. Mainly black. Combined with black sweater of any kind, fitted. Or a striped shirt as well. On top a black leather jacket - blouson or biker-style. And shoes: hi-top chucks - any color, vans slip-ons or as a *special*: pointed black bootees, quite tight, for guys and more loose bootees with reaped bootlegs merely in white - altogether very 80s.

while last 8mm bash seemed to be ... (well let´s say, some called it) a bit out of control (didn´t noticed. as far as i can remember it was pretty awesome. well, let´s call it normal) and i´m hustling with packing and moving ann and mrks gonna spin and dance the night away today.

hallo ihr tröten,

ich sage es immer gerne wieder, damit auch Ihr wisst, weswegen ihr zu
hause bleibt:

triple trouble (mrks & ann)

am montag, 29.05
8mm
ab halb 11

diesmal spielen wir nur langsame indiemusik und trinken auch gar
nichts.
versprochen.