Archive for February, 2007

Sunday bloody Sunday

Sunday bloody Sunday

Well, no – luckily it wasn’t bloody, but Sonic Walker has been offline for 10 1/2 hours today, just after we had released the new mix by echtZEIT. Great timing! I am very sorry for this. In case you want to know the reason, you can read about it on the site of our former [...]


Sonic Walker Mix 17: Let’s go surfing

Sonic Walker Mix 17: Let’s go surfing

echtZEIT put his ambient diary aside and is back with a new mix on Sonic Walker titled freak.waves.

freak waves are large waves which are a threat to large ships generally. In oceanography, they are more defined as waves that are more than double the significant wave height, which is itself defined as the mean of [...]


New Netlabel Mixes in February

New Netlabel Mixes in February

Just before the end of this month and before we release the next Sonic Walker mix, let’s have a look other netlabel mixes which have been published this month. Once again minimal techno is dominating.
Our friends from Zimmer Records have released two new mixes in their Zimmer Mix Series:

Mix#015 – DJ L’embrouille – 2007.7 (techno, [...]


Steve Jobs about the Music Industry and DRM

Steve Jobs about the Music Industry and DRM

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple has posted a long article titled “Thoughts On Music“, where he is reacting to recent criticism on the DRM of the iTunes Music Store. It is an interesting article worth reading.
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in [...]