aka E.Olenikov aka Alltag, Tehran, Iran

http://soundcloud.com/sohrab

this was a great surprise…a “producer” from Iran…good tekno…and even better ambient !

sorry but I cannot embed the soundcloud players of his music since he doesn’t allow it…go and check it out directly on soundcloud…really…go.

very very fresh and alive techno.

i’m against the every-day-a-new-plug-in-mentality of todays music makers.
turning knobs, twisting sounds, jamming and getting deep into single sounds –
this is what i’m all about.

stay techno!

http://soundcloud.com/the-marx-trukker

i don’t do videogames…unless I am very depressed (not very often)
but few months ago I actually bought Osmos (10$) because I was curious…and finally during this holydays i had time to play with it…and i really enjoyed it (even if i wasn’t depressed).
i think it is wicked, and more than anything else the idea behind it is really clever.
the soundtrack of the game is a beautiful (but a bit too classic sometime) ambient album including Biosphere and Gas between the others,
every level has different tracks
Osmos by Hemisphere Games got very good reviews all around and won few prizes…and i reckon are all well deserved…

i wish to work on a similar project in the future

he is one of the minds behind Ableton…and he does many workshops around the planet sharing his knowledge….and many other good things can be said about him…he is humble !

I met him at the Sonica festival 3 years ago where I had the honor to share the same stage (Deadbeat, Rhythm and Sound and Greg Hunter were there too)..that time he played in front of 30 ppl (maybe less)…while thousands where lobotomized on the main stage by some rubbish trance…but he delivered an amazing set…and he didn’t behave like a rockstar…even if many of the bloated rockstars (who were playing on the lobotomy (trance) stage) were actually using a software that he created…period again.

he just released Silence, a new album…(dunno where he finds the time to do music)…

I haven’t got it yet…and I am very curious.
I am very pleased to read that he also joined the movement to stop the Loudness War…and he didn’t use any compressors for this album…and no limiters during the mastering.
This is a link to a very interesting conversation about mastering between Robert and Rashad Becker, the guy who mastered it:
http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html
and it confirms what I wrote in the post “Mastering is killing music” more than 3 months ago…cheers.

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

tracklist

it is absolutely hilarious to see the reactions of this buba buba bloated rotten psy(cotic)superstars in front of the tzunami that is flooding….
and anyway…piracy or not piracy (this is soo boring)…soon legal free music will be beating the copyrighted one for numbers of releases and even quality…oh yes…wait and see…

where the soul is alive.

music is again free from any constrictions and physical ownership…we can only let it flow…enjoy the ride…sing this song. (in the toilet)

this are the albums I am enjoying more in the last months…really loving it…

Badun : Last night sleep
released by my friends of Mindwaves.

I will not go long here telling you who are they and all the rest of the blah blah….just go on thier cute website and dig it by yourself:

http://badun.dk/

the other album is not so recent but I actually found it recently:

Fontanelle: Style Drift
released by Kranky in 2002

absolutely lovely…and alive…shame they didn’t release anything after that.

cloudcycle crashed
and since the php database is lost…also all the posts are lost…(apart of the media files…included the audio)./.

after 24h of php pain cloudcycle is back online (tnx 2 moreno for the help)

Tank-fx

“Tank-FX is a non-virtual effect device. The reverb is generated by
a huge [11m] tank made of ferroconcrete. We put some mics and
speakers in it and connected them to a unix box, so everybody can
use it now from the internet. To try it out, just upload some
audio material. It will be processed in real-time”

the lastest weapon from audio damage
amazing multi modulation filter gate..I am really having lots of fun with it
a must buy
(…yes…buy….49$ !!!)

bigseq2 product page

today has been released an amazing album…blissful music….
one of my favourites since many years….
music that really touched my soul…and got me out of dark places.
I consider myself really lucky…having his music with me all this time before it got finally released.
now is out…you can download it…and donate for it.
bless u greg

greg hunter / dubsahara – metasurfing

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internet is shit

facebook…with friends like this…(from The Guardian)

“So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls “nature”, and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.” Tom Hodgkinson on The Guardian

occupation 101