You’ve got to check out Playing for Change (peace through music). This outfit has people from all over the world playing on a single track!
Here is some info about this song:
“This Song Around The World is a folk tune from Chennai, India. We started the track in New Orleans and added musicians from the across the globe before finally delivering it the people of it’s origin. We ended up in Chennai recording and filming the vocals from the Oneness Choir. The track has a feeling of perseverance and joy and features vocalists from four continents.”
Daedelus with visual artist friend TOHYTO rocked the Meet Factory in Prague. The Meet Factory is a squatted post-industrial building on a Prague brownfield.
Daedelus playing his Menome, an interesting instrument created by Brian Crabtree. Watch a video of Daedelus explaining how it works. Watch an artist interview video with Daedelus.
This website is currently streaming some really great electronic music tracks. I don’t know how much longer the site will be up, so go listen now! 1605
Exams are over, and we are off to Rotterdam's Maas Silo with...
Soulwax & 2ManyDjs
+ Justice!
Programma
Room 1 21:30- 22:30 DVD 'Part of the Weekend Never Dies' 22:30-23:00 L’Azizzi 23:00-23:45 Das Pop live 23:45-01:30 Aeroplane 01:30-02:30 Soulwax live 02:30-04:00 Erol Alkan 04:00-06.00 2 many dj's
Room 2 22:30-00:30 Riton 00:30-02:00 Tiga 02:00-03:30 Justice 03:30-05:30 Joost van bellen
Room 3 23:00-0:00 Hugo + George 01:00-02:00 Paul Chambers 02:00-03:30 Mickey Moonlight 03:30–05:30 The Walk & Roger Seventytwo
Room 4 Sepehr, BoomBap Soundsystem, Freshest Kids en Kid Rêve
UPDATE: Review of the show The Maas Silo is in an old manufacturing building; there is so much gray poured concrete in primary shapes, I could not think of a better place to see a show like this. Enormous concrete pillars create well partitioned spaces. Hanging upside-down, concrete pyramids hover over the dance floor.
For the party, a huge crowd turned out with a wide age range. The actual shows were quite good. The best of the night was Justice; their set had a dynamic and eclectic feel to it which defeated the pulsing monotony syndrome that some of the other DJs fell into. We also saw Erol Alkan and Tiga, both of whom put on a nice set. The most disappointing of the shows was 2manyDJs, the headliners! They had some interesting effects with saw-shaped wave sounds which made the listener's brain feel like it was being put in a clamp, but all of their music had exactly the same non-evolving beat, a kind of 1:1 time or 2:2 but never 4:4 head nodding noise explosion.
