11.02.2012, Club Party: Stattnacht @ Stattbad Wedding with Alexi Delano, A Guy Called Gerald, Fresh Meat + many more

January 27, 2012 | Dates: - Parties, Shows, Streams, Places where we DJ | Leave a Comment

Alexi Delano
Agaric
A Guy Called Gerald
Marcus Meinhardt b2b Empro
Cinthie
Daniel Dreier
Fresh Meat
Andrejko & Hacket

More info coming soon

Why club focused techno music has a hard time entering radio and popular music charts

January 26, 2012 | Gesammeltes Wissen über die Techno-Kultur, Social Media Techno Archive | Leave a Comment

Here you maybe have a an easy answer: It is missing the 4 chords pattern that it takes to produce mass compatible popular music. But what about house and tech-house? Many house music melodies and groove patterns are based on very few chords too.

Laut, lauter, am lautesten / Der Loudness-War im Mastering

January 24, 2012 | Social Media Techno Archive | Leave a Comment

"Der englische Ausdruck „Loudness war“ oder „Loudness race“ (im Deutschen etwa übersetzt mit „Lautheitskrieg“ oder „Lautheits-Wettrennen“) bezeichnet die zunehmende Tendenz der Musikindustrie, Musik in allmählich immer höheren Lautheitspegeln – nicht zu verwechseln mit Lautstärkepegeln – zu produzieren, um einen Klang zu erzeugen, der sich von dem anderer Künstler abhebt." (Quelle: Wikipedia)

Sound-Meister Monolake aka Robert Henke zeigt praktisch, wie sich der Wettbewerb um Lautheit auf Sound auswirkt:

Mastering – a step by step guide to good sound by monolake

Everything Minimal VST Plugin: The Mainstream of the Underground

January 24, 2012 | Social Media Techno Archive | Leave a Comment

This ironic picture of a computer plugin aims at criticising the common practise of house & techno producers around 2006-2008 to (re-)produce a very similar sound (minimal techno) inspired by certain artists (Minilogue, Wighnomy Brothers, etc.) using little innovativeness. Nowadays (January 2012) this sound is widely no more present in clubs, since modern forms of deep house (bongo and chord sounds), (nu-) disco and dark techno are presently the mainstream of the underground.

Edith: Great addition by Snitch as a further (self ironic?) example: Why are all the vocals pitched down so low? Cos this is the way we make techno.

The “DJing Format War”: MP3 (“Files”) vs. Vinyl

January 24, 2012 | Gesammeltes Wissen über die Techno-Kultur, Social Media Techno Archive | Leave a Comment

Vinyl vs. MP3, phisical vs. digital Djing. Are you dealing with this long term discussion within the dj culture, sometimes being told that your are just a conservative vinyl fanatic being afraid of progress? Or have you been accused of not being a proper DJ because you play with Traktor Skratch and use the revolutionary Sync button only? Wish to know about scientific views on this? Then read "Should one applaud? Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music" by Pinch & Bijsterveld (2003) in general terms. And the article "How do you know he's not playing Pac-Man while he's supposed to be DJing?" by Australian popular music scientist Ed Montano (2010) especially on the dj culture. Both are really worth it ! One is free on the net, the other one has to be paid for. Enjoy

Download Ed Montano full PDF for free: CLICK

Montano, Ed. 2010. “How Do You Know He's Not Playing Pac-Man While He's Supposed to Be DJing?: Technology, Formats and the Digital Future of DJ Culture.” Popular Music 29:397-416.

Abstract: In light of the growing literature on DJ culture, this article explores how technological change is having a significant impact on specific areas of music production and distribution within contemporary electronic dance music culture. An ethnographic methodology is employed, based around research conducted in the Sydney dance music scene between 2002 and 2007. The aim of the article is to reveal some of the discourses and reactions in DJ practice that result from shifts in technology. With the increasing use of CDs, mp3s and computer programs such as Ableton Live, the notion that vinyl and turntables represent the authentic technology of DJ culture seems somewhat redundant. The physical movement required to mix vinyl records has meant that the associated skills of DJing have become bound up in notions of physical and visible manipulation of technology, and so the use of technology that does not require and afford such physical expression has raised questions around the fundamental skills of DJing. As such, it would seem that there needs to be a redefinition of the concept of DJing, and a reframing of the skills and abilities seen as being essential to DJ practice. (Source)

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Pinch, T. J. (Trevor J.), und Karin Bijsterveld. 2003. “Should One Applaud? Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music.” Technology and Culture 44:536-559. Abstract: The debate surrounding the introduction of new musical instruments is examined as a way to elicit norms underlying musical practice and culture. The paper details the introduction of three twentieth century instruments: the player piano, the "noise instruments" of the futurists and the electronic music synthesizer. The responses to these new instruments both among classical performers and in the realm of popular culture reveal how traditional norms of musical creativity associated with personal achievement have been supplemented with new norms of democratized leisure and how with the emergence of the noise instruments and synthesizer a new value has been placed upon "uncertainty recontrolled". The paper explores the tension between continuity and change in regard to these musical norms and values. (Source, buy article here)

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In the year 2030 everybody is a DJ

January 22, 2012 | Social Media Techno Archive | Leave a Comment

Instead of just posting everything on Facebook and forgetting about it after two or three days, I decided to use a new category on the blog ("techno-archiv") to save and blog everything I find funny and post worthy related to electronic dance music. It's a shame, this material all gets lost in the depths and pace of the internet. So her is the more experimental start of the social media techno internet archive, soon to be upgraded to something proper. Enjoy the videos, texts and cartoons that people create almost daily to politically and aesthetically reflect on the happenings in electronic dance music scenes.

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04.02.2012, Club Party: 6 Jahre Möbelrücken Extrem @ Ritter Butzke mit Piemont, youANDme + many more

January 22, 2012 | Dates: - Parties, Shows, Streams, Places where we DJ | 2 Comments

Sechs Jahre gibt's Delikat Möbelrücken bereits, und die Erfolgsgeschichte will und will nicht abreißen. Ich selber bin, glaub ich, schon 3-4 Jahre als Resident-DJ dabei und freue mich jedes Mal aufs Neue. Habe bereits viele tolle Möbelrücken-Veranstaltungen erlebt, tolle DJ-Sets gehört, viele Freunde kennengelernt und selbst schon ein paar Tage lang Möbelrücken bespielt (wenn man die einzelnen Set-Zeiten zusammenzählt … . Das Sechsjährige-Bestehen wird mit dem Gästen von Piemont und youANDme garniert, ansonsten gibt es viele, die uns mit ihrer schönen Musik und fabelhaften Sets die Stunden vertrieben haben. Vielen Dank an Andreas für bisherige tolle sechs Jahre, die Möbelrücken-Crew und die anderen Resident-DJs rund um A3000, Pitt & Bone, Hüftschwinger, Duasen und Cinthie Andreas, auf weitere sechs Jahre !

#Blackfloor
Piemont (my best friend / plumbum)
youANDme (cocoon / rekids)
Soukie & Windish (liebe*detail / ursl)
Empro (homesweethome)
Hypnorex (sportbrigade sparwasser)
David Dorad (bachstelzen)

#Ölfasslager
Toni Haupt (telekollegen)
Fresh Meat (berlin mitte institute)
Vlada Janjic (b92 / belgrad)
Pitt (delikat)

#Wohnzimmer
Duasen (funkmachine)
Mitch Alive (soulclap! / funkstation)

#Holzhütte
Mensch gegen Maschine (delikat)
Hüftschwinger (möbelrücken)
Old Deli Bastards (delikat)
u.v.m. (Read more…)