6.10.14

FIFTH ERA - "9.2. KOMMANDOH" (teaser)

FIFTH ERA - "9.2. KOMMANDOH" - KOMING ON VINYL VERY SOON from FIFTH ERA on Vimeo.

There is no god, only Nature. Man invented gods to try and rationalise Nature to himself.
now we don't need gods, but need Nature more than ever...but she does not need us - however much we #### up the planet it will survive in some form.
The sooner the human race wipes itself out the better.
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22.8.14

Burning Man 2014

2014 Art Theme



THIS IS THE SUBTITLED (english/german) VERSION!
You´ll find a complete TABLE OF CONTENT at the end of this information (and a credit list for musicians&DJs!) - so you have the chance to zap in more ore less around the area you want to see!

Thanks for crowd-translations are going to: Alexa, Beate
Carsten, Claudia, Holger, Jonas, Kathy, Lars, Louise, Max, Renate, Stin Chen and Mister Wa (www.misterwa.com) - I hope I did not forget anybody?! If so: Sorry, I´ll ad you here if you remind me! 
If mistakes happened while translating: Please ignore them - you should have helped earlier! ;-)

I cannot afford to spend more time with this project (which I love, btw), because I have to earn some money, too, some time... I am a freelance editor with passion for artists! So: If you know any TV station or web TV people who need content and would like to license some parts: LET ME KNOW! 

Content in order of appearance:
Trailer
Our Camp: Organisation, getting there, bikes 
General orientation, Media Mekka and Organizers (Larry Harvey, Harley K. DuBois)
Camp and surrounding artcars
Orientation: Where ist the man, the temple, the art?
Media Art Tour: CORE Projects (New Orleans, Texas, Israel, Czech Republic); day&night 
Centercamp: Interactive art, stage and artists

Interactive firestuff at night 
„What, Where, When?" -- Burning man program and workshops
Costumes and participation
BMIR Radio, Jerk Church
The meaning of the theme „Cargo Cult" - and who t.f. ist „John from"...? 
Challenges
Windsingers at Sacred Spaces 
Impressions and things to discover around Esplanade
Musicians, Bootie, DJs, Discos and Art-Car-Parties

Artcars, Mad Max and the Thunderdome 
Impressions at night
Photography at early morning 
Doing a camp-party
Photography, playa and art, trap church 
Unicorn and Pan getting ready 
Incredible slackline guy and unicornparade / stampede
Dangerous art: safety third? 
CORE-Burn/ to burn or not to burn: 
The french ´Stairway to Heaven´ 
Windphony at night

Money aspects, facts and figures UPDATE! financial chart BM 2013
Thriller flashmob at Hardly Hotel 
Marriage Peter&Marina
Artists in the desert
Dust and hygiene 
Manburn evening: Artcar Report, Interviews: Disco Duck, Kalliope, Serpent Queen
The man burns
Templeburn
Cleaning up -- compared to german festivals...
Packing, upcoming storm 
Exodus
Abspann

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Dear DJs and Musicians, thank you for allowing me to use your music! 
I put some information here where for example you can find the music:

night scenes with lots of LED-lights:
Frankie Watch - Geiri (NiCe7 remix)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Franki...

dusty day scenes
Jon Charnis - Prophecy
https://www.facebook.com/joncharnis

at night somwhere after the artcars I think
Martin Roth - Beautiful Life (Original Mix) 
https://www.facebook.com/martinrothof...

taking pictures early morning:
Francesca Lombardo - cosmic dancer
https://www.facebook.com/francescalom...

windsingers at daytime 
MUUI - While you were sleeping (Original Mix)
https://www.facebook.com/muuimusic

firejuggler-scenes:
VibeSquaD - "Flexface"
https://www.facebook.com/therealVIBES...

Kalliope artcar sound: ein Berliner! woop-woop!
Click | Click - Ducks In The Kiddie Pool [Palms & Flamingos] 
Label: Palms & Flamingos
http://www.beatport.com/release/welco...
https://www.facebook.com/click.I.click

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Hello love. I'm the musician on the stage at 26:50ish. 
Please add credits and a link to my blog: 
www.SiobhanShier.com

11.8.14

History Of DJ - The DMC Story


History Of DJ

The History of DJ is an amazing story. It's hard to believe now that a top rock musician once said to Tony Prince, "DJ's are parasites of our music". Tony replied, "You'd be lost without us"!
Later in this exhaustive series the journey of the Club DJ, the Radio DJ and the DJ Producer will be revealed. From America's rock 'n' roll DJs and the payola that killed their leader, to the UK's barren radio land where the nation waited nightly at the Radio Luxembourg watering hole to quench their thirst for Beatles, Stones and Tamla Motown soul. The DJ's fight against the Musicians Union which led to a flotilla of pirate radio ships surrounding the British Isles. Then to the development of Ibiza and the global music festivals where DJs command fees beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Today, as the internet changes music consumption with downloads, clouds, blogs and iTunes and DJs host their own radio channels which can never be considered 'local radio' ever again, to the final question in the series: 'Where now"?
Welcome, to DMC's HISTORY OF DJ.

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqk1PSX6Ck

http://www.dmcworld.tv/historyofdj/

Le Peuple qui Danse - Video by Freaky

7.3.14

Sub Berlin - The Story of Tresor (Germany, 2009)



"The Story of one of the world's most legendary clubs retold by its protagonists: Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter, Mr. C, DJ Rush, Mark Reeder, Tanith, Dr. Motte, Josh Wink, Chris Liebing, Regina Baer, Johnnie Stieler, Sven Väth and of course club-founder Dimitri Hegemann, as well as countless other regulars, DJs and clubbers alike - the collective memories of the most life-changing times ever experienced...

The fall of the Berlin Wall was something no-one ever expected to be happening so quick and with such intensity, leaving Germany in a state of euphoria, upheaval and confusion. The years that followed were marked by new-found freedom, chaos, change, and the rush of collective ecstasy. The no man's land in the center of Berlin was the perfect playground for our new sound, blossoming in between the cracked concrete of pre-fabricated socialist buildings and the ancient Berlin apartment blocks still scarred by the gunshots from World War II.

Tracking back the roots of techno in Germany, SubBerlin unearths facts and lets its protagonists recall the story of the most influential club Germany has ever brought forward, as well as explaining the causes of the emergence of techno in Berlin. Gripping images and authentic voices entangled to retell the breathtaking story - combined with the frantic sounds of a restless youth finding itself in a state of new-found freedom."

Oldschool Renegades Documentary



More on Vimeo & Facebook

Twenty years after techno, house and rave swept the charts for the first time, the director Maurice Steenbergen has gone on a world tour to visit the standard-bearers who were the first people to get the world onto its feet with their ecstatic music. A group of known and unknown pioneers and 'old school renegades', who in their own words describe a music that turned its back and created its own musical revolution. This is the documentation of a group that made the soundtrack for both the candy-coloured eighties and the house nineties. A new world of mechanical sound architecture, repetitive beats, piano riffs and smiley logos. To the sound of electronic music machines, a euphoric time is revealed, when a new drug became fashionable that opened up people's consciousness to a psychedelic music universe. A tale about how techno culture invented and discovered musicians with a penchant for synth sounds and made them one-hit wonders or let chance have its way as with Moby, who had his breakthrough with his Twin Peaks-like sample song 'Go'. Get out your glowsticks and dance your way back into music history.

28.2.14

Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed the World


Actor and international DJ Idris Elba counts down the defining moments of the greatest cultural phenomenon of our generation in a programme featuring some of the biggest names in dance music.
Twenty-five years after the birth of rave, a new generation of British DJs and producers are at the forefront of a global musical revolution.
From trance to dubstep, the sound of British producers has now become the most sought-after commodity for the biggest pop stars on the planet.
Reaching far beyond the sweaty dance floors of the Hacienda and the Ministry of Sound, this programme reveals how British nightclubbing transformed our nation and influenced societies across the world.
With personal insights and club-raising anecdotes from David Guetta, Armand van Helden, Paul Oakenfold, will.i.am, Nile Rodgers, Goldie, Pete Tong, Katy B, Skream and former Home Secretary Michael Howard, amongst many more, this entertaining and thought-provoking film celebrates the British success story that has conquered the world.
From sun-kissed holidays on the party island of Ibiza to the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, and from illegal warehouse raves to Labour's 1992 adoption of D:Ream's Things Can Only Get Better, clubbing has touched everyone's life whether they know it or not.
This is an international story, going beyond the music to look at clubbing's influence on everything from real estate to drug use, fashion, politics and the drinks industry.
How Clubbing Changed the World explores how clubbing went from a counter-cultural movement that defined a generation to a multi-billion-pound business, and reveals how, 25 years on, Great Britain is still king of the underground.

24.2.14

Aural Sonata Vol. 2



"Except for music, everything is a lie, even solitude, 
even ecstasy. Music, in fact,is the one and the other, 
only better." (Emil Cioran)

5.2.14

Rene Ricard (July 23, 1946 – February 1, 2014)

 


Life and career

Ricard was born in Boston and grew up near New Bedford in Acushnet, Massachusetts. As a young teenager he ran away to Boston and assimilated into the literary scene of the city. By age eighteen, he had moved to New York City, where he became a protégé of Andy Warhol. He appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966), and The Andy Warhol Story (1966).

As a performer, Ricard was a founding participant in the Theater of the Ridiculous collaborating with John Vaccaro and Charles Ludlam. He also appeared in the 1980 Eric Mitchell independent film Underground U.S.A. (1980), as well as numerous other independent art and commercial films.

In the 1980s, he wrote a series of influential essays for Artforum magazine.[3] Having achieved stature in the art world by successfully launching the career of painter Julian Schnabel,[4] Ricard helped bring Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame.[5] In December 1981 he published the first major article on Basquiat, entitled "The Radiant Child," in Artforum.[6] Ricard also contributed art essays to numerous gallery and exhibition catalogs.

Ricard was immortalized by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the drawing entitled Untitled (Axe/Rene),[7] representing the tension that existed between the two.

Andy Warhol called Ricard "the George Sanders of the Lower East Side, the Rex Reed of the art world."[8]

From the mid-1960s Ricard contributed writings to numerous independent poetry magazines and anthologies. In 1979, the Dia Art Foundation published Ricard's first book of poems, an eponymous volume styled on Tiffany & Co. catalog. The fact that the turquoise-covered book of poems appears in photographs taken on the beach in The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin illustrates its ubiquity as summer reading in 1979.

His second book of poetry, God With Revolver (Hanuman Books) was published ten years later, edited by Raymond Foye. The same year he contributed poems to Francesco Clemente: Sixteen Pastels (London: Anthony D'Offay). Ricard released two other volumes of poetry: Trusty Sarcophagus Co. (Inanout Press, 1990), which featured his poems rendered in paintings and drawings and was the basis of an exhibit at the Petersburg Gallery, New York City; and Love Poems (C U Z Editions, 1999) as a collaboration with artist Robert Hawkins who provided drawings for the book. Ricard also saw publication of single-poem works as limited edition artist books: Opera of the Worms with paintings by Judith Rifka (1984), Cecil (2004), and In Daddy's Hand with artist Rita Barros (2010).

Beginning in the late 1980s Ricard's poems were often rendered in paintings and drawings. His work was the subject of several solo gallery exhibitions in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as being represented in many group exhibitions.

In 2003, Percival Press published the full-color monograph Paintings & Drawings, illustrating a collection of visually rendered poems by Ricard. In 2004, Ricard created the album cover for Shadows Collide With People by musician John Frusciante.

Ricard was portrayed by Michael Wincott in Julian Schnabel's biographical film, Basquiat (1996). He lived at the famed Hotel Chelsea in New York City intermittently for 40 years.[9][10]



Ricard died on February 1, 2014 of cancer at Bellevue Hospital in New York City aat the age of 67.[2]