Chilly B Of Newcleus RIP

Another tragic opportunity for a post. Last Week on Febuary 23rd, 2010 Chilly B of Newcleus died of a stroke. Newcleus released a whole lot of classic Electro HipHop tunes, one of which is Automan which served as the blueprint for Snap's "Rhythm Is A Dancer". Another banger is "Jam On Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)" used with great effect by DJ Noize winning the DMC finals in 1996. Chilly B played bass as well as synthesizers on most of their productions you can see him play on their greatest hit "Jam On It" in the video above. 

Tonight: Linden Love - Faust Hannover

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Tonight it´s on again! Kid CutAnneMr. Confuse and me will be playing on two floors at Linden Love! This will be the 74th party under this title and we are quite thankful that you are showing us love by visiting for more than 7 years now! This month edition will be the last party in winter (at least in western hemisphere) so we´ll be playing a lot of good times songs to get you in the mood for spring and summer! You can hear Anne, Kid Cut and me on the main floor playing Rap, Pop, Rock, Electro, Indie, Breakbeats, Reggae and a lot more in a wildstyle mix, plus Mr. Confuse on the second floor rocking his Funky Breakbeats set. Those images are just some impressions for those who don´t know what they´re up to. I hope I see you there.

The Future Of Games

This video is a presentation by Jesse Schell ex imageneer at disney studios and Carnegie Mellon professor. He holds a lecture on reality layers in games at the DICE 2010. Schell gives an insight on how facebook games got so successful  and why especially you are playing mafia wars or farmville. He draws a vison of the future of gaming which quickly turns out to be a vision of our lives. I really advise everyone to take 28 minutes of your precious time and watch this video, since i can only agree with what G4tv.com says: This is mindblowing, enjoy! via nerdcore

Ikea Built DJ Desk

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Here´s one i made earlier. Since it´s not always easy to keep updating posts with cool stuff that just crosses my road, i was looking around myself. I didn't have to look far to find my, to me perfect, DJ desk. When i moved in here i had a lot of space and i didn't want to have my records all over the floor. Since my collection is organized alphabetically i have to keep the ones i play somewhere else until i put them back in order. I had this ikea glass plate which used to be my desk and then my DJ desk. But while resting on wooden stands this glas thing was quite ugly and not too stable. So one day, when i decided to buy another ikea expedit shelf, i measured one of the old ones and found out that two of them would fit perfectly with the glass plate. I fixed the shelves together with some flat steel bars as you can see on one of the pictures. Two on the undersurface and two in the top compartments on the left and on the right. To protect the glass plate i used some felt pads. The whole thing stands on wheels i bought at ikea too and there you go with a dj desk that fits everything for 197 €. By the way the size of the table is 1,60m x 0,80m x 0,95m.

 

Rock The Clash - This Saturday

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It´s my birthday! Yeah, i had a fantastic party with my family and friends yesterday and on saturday we switch to a bigger location where everybody is invited. My fellow-DJ Cesar will as well celebrate his birthday since we both were born on febuary 16th. A big day with Ice-T having to celebrate on the same day turning 52 this year, happy birthday Ice! We will be throwing some tunes on the deck this night and some of his will be with that! Cesar and me will get support from Kid Cut (Battle of the Year Linden Love) and Jizzo (Maximal / Move Something) playing on four turntables and two mixers. So if you are in hannover this saturday, make sure to visit us @ Bismarckbahnhof, the party starts at 10pm. By the way, the flyer was done by Dauerfeuer!

Akai MPC & Emu SP 1200 USB Drives

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Since i recently bought an SP-12 i was looking for pictures of this wonderful machine. I can report, that are not too many of them circling around the web. You can find loads of SP-1200 pictures though, which directed me to the beautiful device pictured above: an SP-1200 USB drive. You can actually buy them for $ 40 in a bunch of places, which i find is kind of expensive. Nonetheless it is a really nice gimmick. Anyways, since my jacket was stolen which as well contained my USB-Stick holding all the premasters for our album, i advise anyone to be extremely careful with their portable data and only use those devices to transfer files from computer to computer and directly delete them afterwards. (Picture from Juno.co.uk)

Playing In Hildesheim Tomorrow

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Tomorrow be the day in Hildesheim´s Campus Music Club. Anne and me will be playing Funk, Rap, Pop, Electro, Reggae, Rock and a lot more on Friday 12th, 2010 in Hildesheim. I´ve been organizing tracks and playlists all week and we´re really looking forward to play there tomorrow. I´ve never been there, but the pictures on their website look nice. So, if you´re from Hildesheim, be sure to check us out! 

Nice Decoration @ Treibgut Hannover

Finally, the video is online! When we celebrated the anniversary of my event Linden Love, little did we know the Filtertÿpen (in fact Kiatone) would take our projection idea to the next level. As well the guys built humongous letters for their stage as a backdrop. I´ve been there and i must say, even though I don´t like techno music, it was amazing. Enjoy!

My New In-Ear Monitors

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Yay, I received my first birthday present yesterday. Even though it´s still some time I had to order them early because they are exhibition pieces and therefore were a little cheaper than the regular 149 € / $ 199. Those headphones are Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5eb phones, 2 Way driven and come with an integrated subwoofer. I must say that those phones have the best sound i´ve ever had with my music player, or computer, they even beat my DJ phones (Sennheiser HD 25). After listening to them things for several hours yesterday i as well can say that they are really comfortable to wear. Sure, you´ll be looking a little funny, because they are quite big, but that´s something i can live with. Another cool thing is the replaceable cord which is really nice, because the cord was the thing i always broke with my former Sennheiser In-Ears and also is the weakest point when it comes to headphones. But the cord as well is a little short. It should be just 10-20 cm longer because i think if you´re just a little taller than me, you´ll have problems placing your mp3 player in your pocket. With those in my collection, i finally can say that my sound at home or one the road is as fine as it can get and wish you´d have the same. Sorry for the blurry pictures, i wouldn´t advise you to buy the htc hero, when it comes to the camera.

USB Record Player Study

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This is something great! A record player powered by your average USB-Port. Unfortunately it is just a study. Similar things are the Vinylkiller which will not treat your precious records to well or the Sound Burger which would still be my top-choice if I would own one. Anyways i would buy this and prefer it over my GP-3. via Gizmodo and Pyott Design