Oh sweet christmas time. Heading back to Denmark to spend christmas with my family - and party a little with old friends on the 25th. Will be back in Berlin on the 27th. Thanks to everyone with whom I've had fun, exciting, challenging and rewarding experiences with this year - look forward to see you […] Read More…
Yesterday I went with my girlfriend to hear one of my all-time heroes, Grandmaster Flash, at Columbia Club here in Berlin - my first time in audience with the father of turntablism. It is hard to imagine what an immense impact Flash has had on contemporary music, but it is safe to say that it […] Read More…
I have a list of artists that I need to hear before a) they split up/quit or b) I'll get too old and settled. One of the artists on that list is Chicago-based dj and producer Green Velvet. After having missed attending one of gigs while I lived in Chicago and New York during the […] Read More…
I've been meaning to mention this here before, but just haven't had the time to do it. Last week I attended the TEDx Kreuzberg event setup by ao. #thewavingcat in Betahaus. TEDx is a locally organized version of the original TED-events and this Kreuzberg edition turned out to be a real blast. Among the speakers […] Read More…
Today I finally got around to actually attending one of the Likemind-sessions here in Berlin. Likemind is a simple, yet brilliant idea where a global dispersed network of local hosts across the world host café-sessions on select days which can be found on the website (the select days are the same for all chapters across […] Read More…
Today, the upcoming debut album by ambient/glitsch electronica producer Kiloton, 'Language Lost', is being mastered for vinyl by the good people over at Dubplates & Mastering here in Berlin. I am so looking forward to hear the result. The album will be released in February or March on my Urlyd Audiovisual Recordings label.Today, the upcoming […] Read More…
Last weekend, I was invited to participate in the radio show Breitband, which airs on German national radio Deutschlandradio Kultur every Saturday. The show focused on the use of Creative Commons license in releasing music, and I was invited to tell a little about how my record label Urlyd was the first label in the […] Read More…
Yesterday I went to see the British singer and ex-The Smiths front man Morrissey perform at Tempodrom here in Berlin - and it was absolutely fabulous. I love his eccentricity, his skilled word play and sarcasm, his political utterings - and of course most of all his way of forging dark new wave, post-punk and […] Read More…
Yesterday I went to see British grime and experimental hiphop artist Dizzee Rascal at Astra Kulturhaus, over in Friedrichshain here in Berlin - and it was absolutely awesome. He and his backup mc and one-armed dj totally blew the roof off of the fully packed venue. Check out this video of him performing his seminal […] Read More…
Tonight we had the pleasure of attending a special lecture by world famous sociologist Anthony Giddens, who had been invited to Berlin by Heinrich Böll Stiftung, a non-profit for whom a friend of ours, Sue, works. Earlier this year Giddens published a new book, 'Politics of Climate Change', and this was also the area of […] Read More…
