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…)

Eccoludit interviewed interesting people that have to do with hip hop, and then presents the resulting conversations as audio on the Internet. For Episode 28, he has Boris butcher, get better known as Comfort Fit, Pilot microphone. Results in about 17 minutes entertaining insights in Comfort Fits career and producer activity, peppered with many small details about synths, broken beats and house VIVA woman. (more…)

The set by David Rodigan was one of the highlights at the Worldwide Festival. Rodigan is not only one of the most savvy reggae and dancehall DJs worldwide, he is himself one of the biggest fans of this music, he preaches the offbeat and live on the radio and teaches the roots of the sound. (more…)

As previously announced, has now Dego since his debut album at the start: “A wha 'Deh Pon Him” ​​they say, and the de: bug kindly explain what that means. Published is the course record on his own label 2000black. Buy the download version is available in different qualities for a mere € 6. (more…)

music player software, there are a dime a dozen. Music services on the web too, and felt every day new ones are added, most recently provided Google Beta Music Match and iTunes sensation. When the players are stagnating for some time. Almost all can play the local music collection, streaming music from other network, some can do both. (more…)

While I'll spend the weekend in Mannheim on the Future Music Camp 2011, to meet a lot of developers, designers and musicians in the Berlin Music Hack Day. In the rooms of MTV Networks, they have small teams have 24 hours to program cool, new music apps or websites.
The phenomenon Music Hack Day is a global, took place in San Francisco and Barcelona, ​​or find similar events. (more…)

The International Jazz Festival “Just Music '11″ will take place on 25 and 26 February at the Cultural Forum in Wiesbaden Frederick street instead. In its seventh year of the once purely local festival a fixture in the jazz calendar has become.
 
 
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From pianist Uwe Oberg founded together with “Jazz Architect” Raymond Knösche to oppose the traditional jazz tradition of Wiesbaden an alternative that has been “Just Music” published last fall by the early spring, and since it takes place again this time too . (more…)

Fankfurt was considered for decades as Germany's capital of jazz, because jazz has a long tradition in Frankfurt. This did not begin with the American soldiers who brought jazz to the end of the Second World War and in the main, but much earlier, in the roaring twenties. Clubs like the jazz club was founded in 1952 and the German Jazz Festival Frankfurt contributed decisively to fame in the field of jazz, as do musicians like the Mangelsdorff, Heinz Sauer. (more…)

Long presented no new netlabel music anymore, but the album “Debut” by Lavajaz appeared spontaneously in music, must be, in part because it is slightly moved away from the previous minimum of micro radio labels. Actually can be heard on debut analog instruments, and from time to ring clearly through jazzy passages. (more…)

Is Although almost two weeks ago, and unfortunately I still could not really play much with it, but no matter: Mixxx 1.8.0 is out and better than ever before. Mixxx is an open source software for live DJing and runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Since the last version are a lot of new features have been added: loops and hot cues, a revised song library, an, ahem, Auto DJ, better MIDI mapping for external controllers, etc. (more…)