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No comments necessary, part 26
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It Has Begun!
It has begun. Without doubt the best week of the year in our sweet little hometown. Incubate festival is what I am talking about.
Incubate is the annual celebration of independent culture in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including music, contemporary dance, film and visual arts. It brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to free jazz. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.
Please take some time to browse their website because it’s a killer line-up this year. To name a few: Neon Indian, Zola Jesus, Women, Driver Driver, Vindicatrix, Richard Young, City Boys, Pokemachine, Neil Landstrumm, Black Mountain, etc tc etc (Click top image for the online festival guide)
Oh, and aside from sponsoring this event (website and identity) I will be deejaying as well. Come to the official opening at the Duvelhok on thursday if you dig 80’s block party style Hip Hop. We’re going to blow up the roof!
Aaaaand, almost forgot, part of my office is going to be a venue. It will host the work of British visual artist Thomas I’Anson. Just ring my doorbell!
Make sure you get there because it is going to be one special kind of week.
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Small Boys Growing Big
It’s time to put Ingo Oszkinat, my ex-intern, now friend, in the spotlight.
The boy, now man, with the smallest ears in the world has grown so much since he first stepped into my office, that he really deserves some attention. Also because I’m little proud myself I was once his mentor and that I helped him with the concept for the Incubate Festival posters you see on your right ; )
Check out his new website.
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The Future of Deejaying
It ìs the future and it looks promising and unavoidable, but it doesn’t make me happy though. The evolution goes too fast now. Now really everybody can be a dj.
Respect goes out to us, who come from the time when there were not even URLs’ or email addresses on record sleeves, when you had to dig deep and long in crates to find plastic diamonds. The times when you had to work your ass off getting the bpm’s set the same, without beat counters and being heavily ‘drunk’.
But hey, no time to grieve! Better jump that bandwagon before it’s off too far…
(Via, Hi Wilbert ;-))
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Lounge Chair + Ottoman
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More Negative Space
New series of negative spaces by Noma Bar. This time it is a paid job by IBM.
Funny to see that it works when you make original personal works that go round the internet and blogs very quick. Sooner or later they will be picked up by companies like IBM. Also I think you can see it’s not ‘free’ work anymore and that he had from the client’s view this time.
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Manute Bol R.I.P.
Long, long time ago, when Micheal Jordan maybe just had stepped the stage, I was addicted to NBA basketball. I guess because in Holland, Sky Channel came on the cable at that time. Being the first ever overseas channel, you just had to watch it. I remember getting fascinated by the way the Americans covered sports and basketball in general. I grew out to be a true LA Lakers fan and saw them winning the finals with Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar against the Boston Celtics with Larry Bird, in the 1986-1987 season.
In these years there was another player who literally stood out. Sudanese born Manute Bol. Being 7 feet, 7 inches (2.31 meters) he was one of the tallest players in the game ever. In a way you always felt sorry for him and because he was kind of clumsy, but he played some fabulous basketball. Bol was next to being a basketball player an activist for his country of origin. Also he is said to be the inventor of the world known phrase: ‘My Bad’
“You know, a lot of people feel sorry for him, because he’s so tall and awkward,” Charles Barkley, a former 76ers teammate, once said. “But I’ll tell you this — if everyone in the world was a Manute Bol, it’s a world I’d want to live in.”
Bol died yesterday at 47 of rare skin disease he got from one of his visits to Africa.
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Archie’s New Office!
We are très happy!
About a year and a half ago my dear business partner and I fell madly in love with the building you see on your right. Thought about it hard and good before we decided to buy the property some time ago. Last Friday it finally was D-day: we got the keys.
From august the 14th one of our companies will operate from this building, and… me, Archibald, will hold office there as well! Find me in the window(s) to see where.
Can’t wait. To be continued.
Click here for google street view!
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The SMSlingshot?
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Podcast nr 9: Katarie - Yet Another Fucked Up Summer
Podcast number 9 is online. Lots of summer flavors through the blender: acid, italo, house, disco, techhouse, popmusic, experimental. It’s all there.
Enjoy!
1. You mean so much to me - Blondes
2. Stop - BWH
3. Macasu (Motor City Drum Ensemble rmx) - Toby Tobias
4. No Static - Bottin
5. A weekend on my own - Nebraska
6. The Game - Jayson Brothers
7. Jet Set (Ray Mang version) - Marius
8. Stupid Cupid - Space System
9. The Stand - Basic Soul Unit
10. Reject - Martin Landsky
11. La Musica (Tiago rmx) - Munk
12. I heard wonders (Andrew Weatherall rmx) - David Holms
13. Fair weather friends - DaedelusListen to it via Itunes or via our soundcloud
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Archie loves New York!
And New York loves Archie, because today we are delighted to say a very warm welcome to the first woman in our crew: Erin from New York!
Erin is actually a big mystery to us. Some time ago she mailed us saying she loved our blog a lot and that she wanted to write for us. Some research revealed she is a photographer and writer from NYC, running a blog with very interesting stuff herself. Since we thought it was time a woman came amongst us to bring back some balance, we gave it a go and welcomed her in our team.
Zett’m op Erin!
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I Love My Country
Especially in times like these… And I’m not too fond of Dutch schlager music but somehow I just love this song!
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Versions
Very interesting stuff about how the world of copy and pasting relates to parallel universes by Oliver Laric. I just love the combination of art, science and philosophy…
Click here to watch the movie and to hear quotes like this:
“The multiverse is composed of a quantum superposition of infinitely many increasingly divergent non communicating parallel universes or quantum worlds. Every historical ‘what if’ compatible with the initial conditions and physical law is realized. All outcomes exist simultaneously but do not interfere further with each other. Each single prior world having split into mutually unobservable, but equally real worlds.”
(Thanks Fina!)
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Nice 3D Graphics
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Hooray for Europe!
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I Love…
The internet.
Me too. Really. Getting all emotional now, watching that movie… (please click image below to watch that clip)
Funny piece by Justin Kemp, called ‘Proclaiming my love at a scenic overlook on top of a mountain’
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Hello!
And have a great weekend!
I’m off to Rome. Bye!
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Fucking Brains…
New commercial for Fiat. Have to think pretty hard to get this one and I’m not sure if most people will get it at all, but I promise you, it’s gonna be viral as hell. It has just been posted on youtube and has only 11.000 visitors yet, but that will change radically the coming days.
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Love these tattoos
I like these loose black ones done by Thomas Hooper. Have to visit Darko a lot more if I want to end up like this person, but I’m getting there.
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Living NYC
Went to one of the best cigar bars I’ve ever been to, Hudson Bar & Books. Consuming an 18 dollar cigar and an 18 year old whiskey with some smooth jazz in the background, in the best parts of Manhattan… the perfect combination I must say.
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Podcast nr 8: Katarie - Finding Some Time
A brand new podcast. Number 8 already. Time goes fast.
All styles mixed up in this one and if I remember correctly these tracks are more or less the records I spun at Klub Tilt last weekend. So if you missed that one, play it loud now!
Tracklist:
1. Love Cry - Four Tet
2. Goober - Magnus International
3. Beach Towel (I:Cube mix) - Karma
4. Loot - Dollkraut
5. 4 My Peepz - Paperclip People
6. Life’s a Beach (Todd Terje mix) - Studio
7. All the Little Things - Andrew Weatherall
8. Gunship - Locussolus
9. Apple Bobbing - Joe Goddard
10. Supernovac - I:Cube
11. Sequential Circus - Will Saul & Tam Cooper
12. Vandalism - DJ Assault
13. Sexvibe - Pitto
14. Saturn Strobe - Pantha du PrinceListen to it via Itunes or via our soundcloud.