[Books] Cory Doctorow - Makers

Damn, this post took me forever. Not the mere writing / creating of the post, but the phase from deciding to post about it to actually posting it. To be honest, I am a bit lazy when it comes to writing for the blog. Also, as I said before, there will be better reviews than mine, no matter how much time I'd invest. So I decided to search for interesting parts which I can scan, which are interesting for my readers. As this blog is mostly about music I came to think of music-related parts as especially interesting. Funnily, I come across descriptions of all kinds of musical phenomena, in more books than I'd have expected. 

Anyways, this one is a great example by Cory Doctorow. The book is available as free download on Mr.Doctorow's blog Craphound.

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[Speech] David Foster Wallace - This is water (2005)

David Foster Wallace was an American author. The postmodern novel "Infinite jest" (that I am calling my own for over three years now and still haven't read) was probably his most famous work. He hung himself in 2008 after 20 years of depression. Below, find a speech by DFW, held at Kenyon College in 2005.





Thanks to Brainpickings for providing this article about DFW and his speech on their Soundcloud page. Thx also to Paula for posting this article and for being one of the few people on Facebook that are not posting mere bullshit.

[Music] Minimal Tech Netlabel Mix by Affaire Zweifuss

Pretty cool mix by Affaire Zweifuss. None of the artists and tracks featured is registered at GEMA. All of the music is available for free. Just visit the homepages of the labels involved and you will find plenty of good music. Tracklisting and more info (including the party at ZMF (Berlin) for which this mix was made) on the Soundcloud Page.

[Music] BADBADNOTGOOD

BADBADNOTGOOD is a (jazz / hiphop / fusion / electronic) band consisting of five young musicians from Toronto, Canada. They released their second album BBNG2 some month ago. It's available via their homepage for free.

Let me tell you one thing: This album / band is fucking amazing. It's so hard to categorize this music but fuck categories anyways. The guys themselves tag their music with "hiphop jazz postbop", whereas hiphop goes too far since there is no vocalist or rapper. In the album they present their own tracks as well as covers from contemporary electronic music like James Blake's Limit to your Love (see video below) or CMYK. And it's this perfect symbiosis of styles that makes this album such a masterpiece for me. Things are just flowing, it never feels as if they're trying. Everything is working out just perfect.

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