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Hip Hop Culture on Mixcloud
In the section “From the neighborhood” should be mentioned at this point that cut out the Hip Hop Culture Department, whose radio show every other Wednesday evening on radio wave passes the Rhine, recently mixtapes on Mixcloud. Seems to be so burdened by a 14-day, two-hour program is not really out of
With the first two mixtapes is certainly a great start successfully. (more…)
Crowdfunding Onyx Ashanti's Jazz Beat System
The first analog synthesizer were still controlled by punch cards, soon came to a keyboard as input device, in the 1970s was the affordable digital sound synthesis. Although black and white keys would still be the most common method for controlling synths, producers and musicians experimented repeatedly alternatives to the traditional keyboard. (more…)
42nd Deutsches Jazz Festival
Traditionally, the so-called German “jazz capital” Frankfurt am Main from 27 to 30 October, the German Jazz Festival. The event is organized by the Hessian Radio 2011 all about the legendary New York label Impulse!. Because of the Creed Taylor launched label, once published on the John Coltrane's music, is celebrating this year its 50th Birthday. (more…)
From 1991: A half hour feature on Acid Jazz
20 years ago was a very hot acid jazz thing, especially in England. Legendary clubs such as Dingwalls, where Patrick Forge and Gilles Peterson “Talkin Loud and Saying Something” nights held, where bands such as Galliano, Incognito, James Taylor Quartet or US3 played, where jazz and funk to hip hop to electronic dance music came to play in the creation myth of the Acid Jazz a central role. (more…)
Electronic noise improvisation
Bugge Wesseltoft and Henrik Schwarz. They say yes, have since found two. And in fact, the two were last night in the Old Fire Station Mannheim their enthusiasm free rein. Wesseltoft, the first classic wing beaten, his Rhodes later experiment with blows, to elicit squeaky hum, and eventually switched fully on iPad. (more…)
Enjoy jazz mini-tour
morning I start my own personal mini-tour to the Enjoy Jazz festival in the Rhine-Neckar-Delta. Even before Erik Truffaz had eleven days, the festival opens with Miles Davis songs. Incidentally, the great play tonight The Bad Plus. And tomorrow, yes tomorrow, the eight sons of Phil Cohran, are better known as the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble bring the fire station in Mannheim for burning. (more…)
Dubstep parties in Mainz and Wiesbaden
Depending on whom you ask, the genre Dubstep is at least 9-10 years old. But the sound came from the south London in Germany never so right, you see sometimes on some busy forums and blogs, pushing the dubstep for a long time. Will you go to celebrate this bass-heavy music, so it gets difficult – even in Wiesbaden and Mainz. (more…)
Vindahl – Serendipity
An album that bears the same name as the software that powers this little blog here, of course, must be discussed. Even more so if it comes from Ronni Vindahl and appeared on Tokyo Dawn Records. On the label sampler The Heart pierced the very last track, namely the out of Vindahl, dug himself deeper with each pass into the ear canals and eventually became my favorites on the disk. (more…)
Impulse! 2-on-1
I must here and now simply advertise a current series of jazz releases of the 50th Birthday of Impulse! Records: The label Impulse! 2-on-1 currently many classics from the outstanding collections of the New York labels are re-released, and while each artist a brace each. Reissues have been published by Pharaoh Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, Duke Ellington, Ahmad Jamal and Archie Shepp. (more…)
Torch 40 years
Frederik Hahn, better known as the Torch, is one of the original fathers of German hip-hop underground. The “Overlord of Sound & Culture” founded in 1987 with Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One and DJ Mike MD Advanced Chemistry in Heidelberg. On 29 September 2011 is celebrating its 40th Torch Birthday. (more…)