19 – September – 2012 – Electronic Beats

preview Space Bazaar Photo by Stefan Korte — Picture of the Day

art berlin contemporary

As the daughter of journalists, from a wee age the size of things I’ve typed on has evolved over a jagged bell-curve — that is, medium to giant to tiny. From my dad’s hand-me-down 1956 Royal Quiet Deluxe, my device grew into a humming IBM Selectric typewriter with a clacking daisy wheel. Later it ballooned – more

As the daughter of journalists, from a wee age the size of things I’ve typed on has evolved over a jagged bell-curve — that is, medium to giant to tiny. From my dad’s hand-me-down 1956 Royal Quiet Deluxe, my device grew into a humming IBM Selectric typewriter with a clacking daisy wheel. Later it ballooned into a Kaypro II PC with slots for floppy disks and, circa 1998, into a sea-blue, bulbous monitor-ed iMac. Sigh, from there on out you know the rest… they shrunk at increasing speed into mealy, touch-pad oblivion. But Bless’s “workout computer” on view at the Artists Space Bazaar at abc art berlin contemporary last week–a series of punching-bag letters that show up on the screen–gave me the opportunity to mourn my past monster devices, not to mention punch the shit out of my Ur-carpal tunnel syndrome. –Text by Mara Goldwyn, Photo courtesy of Stefan Corte / art berlin contemporary

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— Here’s Flying Lotus new animated music video for ‘Putty Boy Strut’ on Youtube — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Bass drum. Peak. All very important. Learn how techno was produced in 1994, Westbam & co explain on YouTube — link sent by Walter W. Wacht
— Read Adam Harper’s introduction to Ferruccio Busoni’s ‘Towards A New Aesthetic Of Music’ on Dummy Mag — link sent by Michael Aniser
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Mostly Robot – Live at EB Festival Budapest 2012

A 15 minute video of Mostly Robot’s set from EB Festival Budapest. Or, what happens when you get a serious amount of talent, and a intimidating volume of gear, in a room together. Warning: contains some seriously geeky dance moves. – more

Editor’s Choice 12

What’s that? You want to know what’s been going in our ears this week, reverberating our cochleas and sending broader vibrations throughout our bodies and by extension our audio-addled souls? That’s a coincidence: here’s this week’s Editor’s Choice. – more

Mix of the Day: System of Survival

Today’s Mix is also an unpublished exclusive. DJ duo System of Survival have given us an unpublished, extra-long and house-heavy mix. If your dreamdate is a night in Ibiza, you’ll feel right at home. – more