The Creators Project- Mit Mark Ronson, Spike Jonze und vielen mehr

01/06/2010 / Anja Base

Stellt euch vor man würde ein Projekt an den Start bringen, dass mehr als 80 außergewöhnliche Künstler an den weltweit interessantesten Veranstaltungsorten zusammenbringt. Vice und der führende Mikrochip-Hersteller Intel planen zur Zeit genau dies mit ihrem gemeinsamen Creators Project.

Das auf mehrere Jahre angelegte Creators Project wendet sich an die internationale Jugend-Szene und hat das Ziel, Kreativität und Technologie zu vereinen. Neben der Expo 2010 also ein weiterer globaler Event, der das junge, künstlerische Know-How vieler Nationen präsentieren will. Auf ihrer Webseite stellen führende Kreative aus aller Welt ihre Projekte aus Musik, Kunst, Film, Design und Architektur der Öffentlichkeit vor.

Während fünf internationalen Creators-Konferenzen in New York, London, Sao Paulo, Seoul und Peking werden Livekonzerte, Kunstaustellungen, Filmvorführungen und Podiumsdiskussionen veranstaltet. Teilnehmende Kreative sind etwa DJ Hell, Boys Noize, Nick Zinner, Phoenix, Mark Ronson oder Richie Hawtin.

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Über das Projekt selbst sagen die Organisatoren:
„The Creators Project hat zwei Aufgaben: einerseits ist es ein moderner Medienkanal, den wir benutzen werden, ständig neue Arbeiten von visionären Künstlern zu entdecken und zu feiern, egal wo sie sich befinden. Und andererseits ist es ein Studio in dem neue Inhalte geschaffen werden, eine Art Kunststiftung, die die Produktion und Verbreitung neuer Arbeiten dieser Künstler und der Leute mit denen sie zusammenarbeiten, fördert.“


Wow. Wir sind gespannt! Wenn ihr die Möglichkeit habt an einem der Events teilzunehmen solltet ihr euch das nicht entgehen lassen.

Frittenbude - Katzengold

31/05/2010 / Jonas Morea

Das Hamburger Chaoten-Label Audiolith verfolgt eine recht unkonventionelle Veröffentlichungs- und Promopolitik. Gerne verschenken sie ihre Tracks oder sorgen mit wilden Journalistenentführungen durch Deutschlands Provinz für Aufsehen.

Die Konzerte und Touren des Labels sind längst standardmäßig ausverkauft und vor allem wenn die drei Jungs von der Frittenbude auf der Bühne stehen, kennt der Jubel keine Grenzen. Soeben ist deren zweites Album erschienen, auf dem sich die Bayern ein wenig reifer geben, aber der Spass an der Party in Kombination mit klugen Texten, bleibt natürlich wichtiger Bestandteil des musikalischen Konzeptes.

Auch auf "Katzengold" wurde natürlich auch wieder fleissig mit befreundeten Künstlern wie Flicke von Juri Gagarin und Ira Atari zusammengearbeitet.

Einen kleinen Vorgeschmack gibt die erste Single "Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier", zu der dieses sehr feine Video gedreht wurde:






“Katzengold” ist auf Audiolith Records erschienen.

EB OFFICE FAVOURITES - May 2010

31/05/2010 / EB Team

Summer hasn't really reached us but that won't stop us from offering great music. To hell with the rain - we have some sunny vibes running through this selection. So, sit back and relax and listen to some great tunes.

The EB Office team is: Carlos de Brito (CDB), Gareth Owen (GO), Kazim Rashid (KR), Ari Stein (AS) and Marc Zedler (MZ).

Ratatat - We Can't Be Stopped

(Taken from the album LP4 (2010) on XL Recordings)

A lovely short instrumental to get you in the mood for summer. Ratatat have been bubbling underneath the surface for quite some time, in fact for more than three albums. Only now, I think they have hot their charming stride. Jon Brion, eat your heart out.
(AS)

Soul Clap – Extravaganza

(Taken from the 12inch R&B Edits (2010) out on Wolf + Lamb Music)

The Wolf + Lamb camp has totally got me. In March I couldn't get Nicolas Jaar's ‘A Time For Us’ out my head, now it’s Soul Clap’s housed-up rework of Jamie Foxx’ ‘Extravaganza’ that totally got me. The Boston duo is on a roll, and all cuts on this genre-blurring 12inch R&B Edits are a corker and well worth hunting down.

Listen to 'Extravaganza' (starting at ca. 9:45 min) and other Soul Clap beauties in their top notch Boston Mix for XLR8R magazine. (CDB)

Grooveman Spot - Affection (feat. Ahu)

(Taken from the album Change Situations (2010) out on Planetgroove)

Here is another brand new tune from me for this month. New music is so good at the moment. This tune comes courtesy of Japan's Planetgroove, an offshot from the Jazzy Sport founders. Grooveman Spot features Ahu, who is a girl who can do no wrong in my opinion. (KR)

Kariya – Let Me Love You for Tonight (House Club Version)

(Taken from the 12inch Let me Love You For Tonight (1988) on Sleeping Bag)

Oooh my gosh. Probably one of my favourite early (ok anoraks, late period) house tracks. Laden with emotion and longing, I could dance to this all night long. (GO)

John Daly - This Is A Lonely Beat

(Taken from the album Sea & Sky (2009) out on Wave Music)

Irishman John Daly is a deep house artist based in the sleepy coastal town of Galway. Known for sublime mixes and intoxicating tracks, John is an artist who deserves much more attention. With so much emotion thrown in, 'This Is A Lonely Beat' resonates as the epitome of a good deep house track. Also, his song 'Sea And Sky' made it on our top tracks of 2009. (MZ)

Legendary Pop Group to reform

31/05/2010 / Gareth Owen

Legendary Bristol post-punk band the Pop Group are reforming. Cited as as an influence by a number of modern producers including LCD Soundsystem, the band have been credited with creating 'punk-funk'. Politically charged, abrasive, trailblazing - any number of adjectives could be used to describe the legacy of the seminal group who were led by Mark Stewart.

Stewart later went on to form cult band Mark Stewart and the Mafia with Skip McDonald and Doug Wimbash of the Sugar Hill Gang. Other members of the Pop Goup went on to form Pig Pag or be part of outfits such as PiL and African Head Charge.

The last time the band recorded together was in 1980 for For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, but their influence still resonates today. Disparate acts from Massive Attack to Tricky, Atari Teenage Riot to Nine Inch Nails all carry mutated influences that can be traced back to the Pop Group - arguably the first influential band to come out of the city of Bristol, and acknowledged 'godfathers' of the 'Bristol scene'. Punk funk, agit pop, industrial and noise music have all at various times been credited with being invented by the band.

In a typically oblique press release, the band state that they will be reforming to record a new project, The Alternate, and to play some secret shows. The press release also goes on to state their new manifesto : Deny The Politics of Envy. Taste is a form of personal censorship. Technique is the the refuge of the insecure. We are the new banalists.

The first two shows (according to Mark Stewart) are to take place in Italy, on September 18th in Bologna and 20th in Turin.

Fresh impulse for music sharing

31/05/2010 /

SoundCloud has more than 1 million registered users

SoundCloud founders Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung recently announced the music sharing site had now attracted 1 million users, giving "a bigger than words thank you to every single one of you, building SoundCloud for you truly is a great pleasure".

Just over a year ago the site had 100,000 registered users but has grown from strength to strength. The two start-up entrepreneurs went live with a beta version of SoundCloud in 2008, shortly after moving to Berlin from their native Sweden. Ljung and Wahlforss both had a passion for electronic music and immersed themselves in the city's club culture - they mixed business with pleasure and began networking with DJs, musicians and club owners, sometimes even promoting their business on sweaty dancefloors at 4am.

They have since cooperated with major international labels, artists and organisations, including London's legendary Abbey Road Studios. Since the end of last year, musicians can submit their tracks to audio engineers at Abbey Road and have their music mastered on the same type of equipment that was used to add the finishing touches to Beatles and Pink Floyd tracks.
www.abbeyroadonlinemastering.com/soundcloud

The SoundCloud CEOs have even gone as far as to declare the death of download culture. At this year's SXSW, Ljung predicted that streaming services would grow in importance. "Downloads are stupid. I'd rather stream it from a hard drive that someone else is managing. When consumers press 'play,' that file will be managed by someone else," he said. The SoundCloud founders have also published a book 'on interpersonal trust in web-mediated social spaces', which is available here.

How does SoundCloud work? The site's main function is to help musicians, producers, and other music professionals share and collaborate on music tracks. In the days before SoundCloud, it was much more difficult for people to transfer and work on audio tracks because of their large file sizes. Users can now stream songs via SoundCloud's servers, with the option of allowing their peers to download songs. One of the site's most striking features is an embeddable music player, which can be shared via blogs and social media. The player lets users comment directly on a specific part of a track. Here is a demonstration of how it works.