John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959) [Atlantic]

Tracklist 

A1 Giant Steps 4:43 

A2 Cousin Mary 5:45 

A3 Countdown 2:21 

A4 Spiral 5:56 

B1 Syeeda's Song Flute 7:00 

B2 Naima 4:21 

B3 Mr. P.C. 6:57 

Credits 

Bass – Paul Chambers 

Drums – Art Taylor (tracks: A1 to B1, B3), Jimmy Cobb (tracks: B2) 

Engineer [Recording] – Phil Iehle, Tom Dowd 

Piano – Tommy Flanagan (tracks: A1 to B1, B3), Wynton Kelly (tracks: B2) Supervised By – Nesuhi Ertegun 

Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane 

Written-By – John Coltrane

ACTA Infografik

For the win / Makers by Cory Doctorow

What a great, exciting, informative and inspiring book "For The Win" was to me. And even though I am not a native English speaker it was very easy to read after having adapted the gaming vocabulary (don't worry girls, it's not that much). So again, I advise anyone who's familiar with the english language to give it a try in the original version.

I don't want to write a review, since I bet there are 20+ reviews to be found in the internet and all of them are probably better than mine would be.You can find one here by wired.com and another one here on SFSite.

To introduce the author, Cory Doctorow, I have linked an interview with him. It is mostly about Makers, another novel he wrote, and, of course, For The Win. Just to let you know, Cory Doctorow has been voted amongst the 25 most influential persons in the Internet by the Forbes magazine. Check the corresponding article.

A definitive must-read for everybody interested in the internet, gaming, economy and science fiction. Escpecially a must-read for everybody else.

Murmuration

German Pirates Party - A documentation

This movie is a documentation about the first 100 days of the young German Pirate Party in Berlin's parliament, the Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus. If you're into politics and especially into the Pirate Movement, you should check it out. The documentation was originally aired by the German broadcasting station ARD. You can find it here.

Skateboarding is fun!

Content With Nothing

This is one crazy website. Probably one of the craziest, weirdest websites I have seen in my internet career. Yet, wonderful. Yet, beautiful. Thx Isabel for showing it to me. But, how to present a website like that properly in a blog???   I have no freakin' clue. Let's try this:

I would like to thank You for looking at this url.
Please allow me to have the chance to show my satisfaction with this treatment.
I offer professional and instant support.
Please visit this :


I love information, You will too.


If you havent heard then you need to pay close attention to this message.
A rapidly growing ailment with diagnosing at an increasing rate.

I guess you just have to trust me here and check it out. Plan in some time, if you like wicked stuff: structures, sounds, graphics, dynamic content, etc....      To give you an idea about how wicked this is, here's a picture of the menu:

At last, it should be mentioned that Joseph Waller from NY is responsible fot this piece of Art. Big Up to Big Apple. 
Cheers! 

Right There!

Hello, I love you!

Hello from ant1mat3rie on Vimeo.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)

As this is the 10th post, it's about time for the first jazz record, eh?!
I will start with a true classic, which my Dad passed on to me (thx for introducing me so much good music):

Miles Davis' fantastic Bitches Brew, that was released in 1970 on CBS Records.
Must-hear, must-know, must-have! Nuff said!

Bass – Dave Holland
Bass Clarinet – Bennie Maupin
Bass [Fender] – Harvey Brooks
Drums – Charles Alias, Jack DeJohnette, Lenny White
Electric Guitar – John McLaughlin
Electric Piano – Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul (tracks: A to C1, D2), Larry Young (tracks: A, C1 to D1)
Percussion – Jim Riley
Producer – Teo Macero
Soprano Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
Trumpet – Miles Davis
Written-By – Miles Davis (tracks: B to D1)

 

Tracklist:

A - Pharaoh's Dance (by Joe Zawinul) - 20:07min
B - Bitches Brew - 27min
C1 - Spanish Keys - 17:30min
C2 - John McLaughlin - 4:23min
D1 - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down - 14:03min
D2 - Sanctuary (by Wayne Shorter) - 10:54min

Get illuminated - Robert Anton Wilson Week on BoingBoing

What a nice feature on BoingBoing: It's Robert Anton Wilson Week. For those who don't know: he's the one responsible for the mindfucking Illuminatus! trilogy. That's the real Illuminatus! book, not that crap by ... ! As most of you can probably figure out themselves, people who write such crazy, beautiful books, are very likely to have interesting stories and happen to know interesting people. Read more about him here on his Wiki-Page and find out about his relationship to the LSD-Pope Timothy Leary or his writings for the Playboy mag.

The Small Faces - All or nothing

Jonti - Sine&Moon (The Album) - Stones Throw - Free DL

MAD LOVE - no words needed, you're a fool if you don't get that gift from Stones Throw !

SACEM (French GEMA) allows their clients to use non-commercial CC licenses

From yesterday on, French musicians, composers and lyricists, who are members of the SACEM, can license their work under the non-commercial Creative Commons License. I think the german GEMA should allow their clients to do likewise. It would be a step into the right direction, and it would show their goodwill, which I doubt they have at all. For me it seems like the GEMA ist just trying to preserve itself, nothin more. Therefore, I will give some more information on the GEMA soon, and why they suck so bad. 

A thorough article about the new development at SACEM is to be found here.

Peter Schumann - Schoolyard EP on BlueCode Records

Great EP by the great Peter Schumann (Bar25, Platte International) that was recently released on BlueCode Records, which I happen to run together with my buddy Tim Tor. Also featuring a very special remix by his darkness Benjamin Fehr (Catenaccio Rec.).

Check out the promo video and soundcloud set below. Support if you like what you hear. Strictly underground business. We the good guys! (: 

BCR010 Peter Schumann - Schoolyard EP by BlueCode Records

The Occupied Times of London

The digital newspaper for all things occupied. Or so. Lots of infos about the movement and the different Occupy-Camps. PDF's of the print versions. Interviews, comics, pretty much everything a newspaper offers. And one hell of a font.

Find the newspaper here including downloadable PDF's of the print version. Occupy!

B Flat Jazz Club

Finally I made it to a jazz club in Berlin. It took me about 2 years so this is definitly worth a blogpost, right?!

The name of the club is 'b-flat Accoustic Music and Jazz Club'. Its located in Berlin-Mitte,
Rosenthaler Straße, near U8 Weinmeisterstraße and it's supposed to be one of Berlins top addresses for live jazz. 


 



I'd definitely recommend this club to everybody who's down with jazz music. 
Cool atmo, cool view.Cold beer.
Cheers.

http://www.b-flat-berlin.de/

10119 Berlin-Mitte
Rosenthaler Str. 13
Fon+Fax +49 30 283 31 23

Öffnungszeiten:
So. - Do. ab 20:00
Fr. / Sa. ab 21:00