Techno

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. ...

Richie Hawtin recently started to post the records he is playing on twitter. He is using Traktor while he plays, which now has a new plugin which allows this functionality. Others have posted about this and what it means for techno music enthusiasts, DJs and the music industry. I think it is one of the few good applications of twitter and I decided to hack something together to display this information in a little bit nicer way. ...

The Sonar 2009 - krass.com pages are up. This is probably the last time I do this, as it is just too much work and nobody else is helping me with the wiki. Sonar is doing a special offer of 125 EUR for the general pass for the three days. The normal price is 140, which is the same as last year. Maybe they realize that they can’t raise it every year. Some of the parties were very empty last year.

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.

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. ...