Category Archives: Culture

While try­ing to dig into the Berlin elec­tron­ica scene, the good record stores etc., I came across Berlin Dig­i­tal as I was brows­ing the shelves of Dense (which is also an excel­lent record store — lots of Mille Pla­teux, Staub­gold, dub, breakcore).It’s an 2004 DVD (175 min­utes) shot in ten days, high­light­ing some of the Berlin elec­tro scene, fea­tur­ing labels like !K7, Shitkat­a­pult, Sonar and Hard:Edged, clubs like Water­gate, peo­ple like Gudrun Gut and much more. Con­tinue read­ing →

Friend of the house and elec­tron­ica wiz Marc Kell­away recently released Run­ning Uphill on Radio Khar­toum under the alias The Cat Box Quar­tet. Con­tinue read­ing →

A cou­ple of months ago we launched aux.dk, the online pres­ence of our sond/sound art group.We’re pas­sion­ate about sound; music, radio, sound art etc. and towards the end of the year we’re doing an online exhi­bi­tion accom­pa­nied by lis­ten­ing sta­tions in dif­fer­ent loca­tions in Copenhagen.I’ve been mean­ing to blog this way ear­lier, but reboot and Code­gar­den and clients and sum­mer and.….. Major over­haul com­ing up.But for now: Check out the open call. Con­tinue read­ing →

Loud is clos­ing down. Damn. Con­tinue read­ing →

Vester­bro Bymu­seum har for nylig lanceret Vester­bro Site — seks audiowalks pÃ¥ Vesterbro.Seks unge for­fat­tere og kun­st­nere tager pub­likum med ud pÃ¥ en audiowalk rundt pÃ¥ Vester­bros gader og stræder. Det sker med en MP3-afspiller og et sæt høretelefoner som led­sager. Con­tinue read­ing →

We will dis­cuss the term piracy, not as in tak­ing to claim, but as in tak­ing to share and dis­trib­ute as talk about pirate media on the basis of the his­tor­i­cal exam­ple of the pirate radio Radio Mer­cur.… We will screen the movies %u201DSkibet er ladet Med…%u201D, a Dan­ish com­edy from the 1950ties about a pirate radio sta­tion assem­bling Radio Mer­cur, as well as the clas­sic %u201DCaptain Blood%u201D, star­ring Errol Flynn. Con­tinue read­ing →

The Huff­in­g­ton Post on the iTMS and for­mat trouble:If he isn’t care­ful Bill Gates might just Beta­max him while the crowds cheer him on.Post sum­mary: iTMS is just as evil as every­one else, gets credit for get­ting the ball rolling. Con­tinue read­ing →

Helle Helle viser sig at være den bedre belæste læser, der skal til. Con­tinue read­ing →

Joel man­ages to do the writeup I never did when Ein­stürzende Neubauten played in Copen­hagen last year. This Sun­day they’re at it again. Con­tinue read­ing →

Just pur­chased Mogwai’s Gov­ern­ment Com­mi­sions, a col­lec­tion of all their BBC ses­sions in hon­our of the late John Peel. Great band, great man.

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A Ger­man (almost) his­tory les­son for the week­end: Ein Colt für alle Fälle. When I was a kid, this guy and his two friends were on Ger­man national tv a lot. Big trucks (with a secret com­part­ment for hid­ing the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Et hur­tigt tip: Dagens Poli­tiken inde­holder et glim­rende inter­view med dansk elek­tron­musiks største pio­ner, Else Marie Pade, der for nylig fyldte firs. Men søreme om hun ikke også har skrevet en del slagere i sin tid som ind­sat hos det … Con­tinue read­ing →

Lidt forsin­ket, men here goes. Fra pressemed­delelsen: Sit­u­a­tion­is­tiske løsblade Café Tjili Pop, Rantzaus­gade 28, 2200 København N Ferniser­ing fredag den 13. august 2004, kl. 18–21 Kul­tur­forenin­gen LOLA præsenterer i peri­o­den 14. august til 12. sep­tem­ber 2004 udstill­in­gen Sit­u­a­tion­is­tiske løsblade. Udstill­in­gen bestÃ¥r … Con­tinue read­ing →

Caterina.net: I dette ejen­dom­melige, korte for­fat­ter­skab finder man tek­ster, der i deres kun­st­ner­iske radikalitet fore­griber den symbolistisk-modernistiske æstetik, hvis gen­nem­brud nor­malt tids­bestemmes til slut­nin­gen af det 19. Ã¥rhundrede. 1. Grab the near­est book. 2. Open the book to page 23. … Con­tinue read­ing →

This just in: tors­dag d. 22 april kl. 20 i Kirken i Møllegade præsenterer KANTEN & SUBOTNIK KIM CASCONE (us) — solo labtop SLOPE — noise duo for Labtop & Le Bas­tard KVERNELAND — solo ambi­ent støjmusik kim cas­cone er lidt … Con­tinue read­ing →

REces­sion seems to be a good way to spend qual­ity time in Jyl­land. At time of writ­ing, today’s fea­tured artist is DAT pol­i­tics which I had the plea­sure of see­ing per­form at the lab after a Sangild book release (if … Con­tinue read­ing →

Finally got around to see LOTR / Return of The King. Quite all­right, a bit long at the end, but that was sort of expected. One qes­tion remains, though: How did Peter Jack­son per­suade Jakob Nielsen to play the part … Con­tinue read­ing →

Fri­day night we did a lit­tle con­cept: All the good peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ing had to bring music from par­tic­u­lar year — the won­der­ful year of 1992. This is the music we lis­tened to: Poly­gon Win­dow / Surfin on Sine Waves Prince / … Con­tinue read­ing →

BLEEP — Dig­i­tal Down­loads from Warp Records is finally here. Oh joy.

Went to the sold out Kings of Leon con­cert at Lop­pen last night. They went on stage pretty late and the whole thing was over in about 40 min­utes. Heavy applause didn’t make them come back, instead the light came … Con­tinue read­ing →

Elec­tronic record label Warp Records is launch­ing bleep.com in Decem­ber 2003, offer­ing their whole back cat­a­logue as well as any new releases to come as pay-per-track down­laods. No pro­pri­etary soft­ware will be needed to down­load. Great news — and nice … Con­tinue read­ing →

Just stum­bled upon the Urban75 ezine sport­ing loads of UK/London stuff. Pic­tures from Brix­ton always put a smile on my face…

Copen­hagen based sound engi­neers and DIY entre­peneurs Kom­po­nent are tear­ing a jeep apart this week­end at LAB, Vester­bro­gade. DJs and beers, bar­be­cue and car parts — the jeep will be reassem­bled with WiFi, MP3 plaer and other good­ies. Live web­cam … Con­tinue read­ing →