Collecting Cassette Decks

Collecting Cassette Decks

This probably falls into the category of weird hobbies. Friends have asked me about it, so I figured it was time to write it down. Some history I grew up in the 80s and cassettes were a big part of how I experienced music. I remember recording bits of radio shows to create my own mixtapes. Furthermore, I also recorded records of friends and relatives to play on my Walkman. ...

April 22, 2025 · 6 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-12

Friday Links 23-12

Many videos about urbanism from the last two weeks. The articles from LinkedIn about measuring developer productivity and happiness and the one about slack by Marting Fowler are also great. This week we also have a short “Music” section. Leadership thedecider.app - a simple tool to choose a decision process … mostly useful for the overview of processes. Inside Look: Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn - both difficult to measure, this is one approach. ...

April 14, 2023 · 4 min · Christof Damian
The Big Digitization Of Cassette Tapes

The Big Digitization Of Cassette Tapes

Today I finally finished digitizing all of my techno and house cassette tapes. It took me a little bit over two months. Here are some statistics: 290 “a” sides 278 “b” sides (sometimes the tapes broke after the first side) 12 tapes which unusable 41 tapes which turned out to be copies of CDs which are available to buy 5 tapes were copies of stuff I have also on CDs which are not available to buy 8 tapes had unreadable labels 249 GB in 16 bit 48khz WAVE files the whole list I probably still have some tapes flying around somewhere and my girlfriend also has some, but the vast majority of my music is digitized now. The music is mainly mixed techno and house DJ sets, from my friends like DJ Gomez, Motik and Nitin. A lot of sets are recorded from radio like HR3/HRXXL and Hithouse Stuttgart and in clubs around Stuttgart and Cologne. The most popular DJs are Sven Vaeth, Roland Casper, Richie Hawtin, DJ Hello, Dag, and Laurent Garnier. ...

July 5, 2009 · 2 min · Christof Damian

My music podcast selection

This are the music podcasts I am listening too at the moment. It is mostly techno, but also house and some dub. And whatever last.fm thinks I would enjoy. dailysession http://dailysession.com/?feed=podcast DE:BUG POD - a netaudio podcast http://www.de-bug.de/pod/wp-rss2.php electro house & house & techno mix http://djbene.podspot.de/rss Galaktika Records Podcast: Minimal, Electro and House hottests tunes! http://www.galaktikarecords.com/podcast.xml Ibiza Voice Music Box http://www.ibiza-voice.com/music/rss_podcast.php Last.fm free recommended downloads for cdamian’s http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/user/cdamian/podcast.xml Minimal(maximal) Techno DJ mixes by Louis de Bourbon http://www.graphicjuice.co.uk/podcast/podcast.xml MinimalNet http://www.minimalnet.org/feed Minus Podcast: http://m-nus.com/podcast.xml NetAudio Russia http://www.netaudio.ru/feed Resident Advisor podcast http://www.residentadvisor.net/xml/podcast.xml Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Acid http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/acid/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Breaks http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/breaks/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - DJ-Mix http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/dj_mix/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Drum and Bass http://starfrosch.chdownload_music/drum_and_bass/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Dub http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/dub/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Electronic http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/electronic/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - House http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/house/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Minimal http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/minimal/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Techno http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/techno/feed the fabric podcast http://feeds.fabriclondon.com/fabricpodcast I would upload the OPML file, but blogger.com doesn’t allow attachments.

September 23, 2008 · 1 min · Christof Damian
M_NUS @ BAM

M_NUS @ BAM

Went to see Magda, Gaiser and Richie Hawtin at the Red Bull Music Academy M_NUS @ BAM. It started at midnight, which is a more civilised time than the usual 3:00 we get here in Barcelona. Magda was very good, Gaiser was ok and Hawtin had his good moments. I think Hawtin now has the same problem as Sven Vaeth, he is just too popular and his productions and studio mix sessions are way better than his live sets. It is a pity, because I remember a lot of good parties with him a few years ago. ...

September 21, 2008 · 1 min · Christof Damian