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Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 – “East meets West”

Harald Walker — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:10:24 +0000

[press release] From the 8th to the 11th of October 2009, Netaudio Berlin will be gathering the international netaudio community for a 4 day music and conference festival in Berlin, under the title “East meets West”. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, we recall pictures of helping hands reaching out to pull people from both sides up on to the Berlin wall. The event will take place at Maria, a venue situated immediately on the former Berlin ‘death strip’ once di- viding the city and the world into eastern and western hemispheres. In recent years a netaudio landscape has emerged in the countries of Eastern Europe. Speakers, artists and netlabel managers from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from the USA are invited to ﬁ nd out more about the needs and possibilities, challenges and chances of netaudio under the various cultural frameworks and to discuss new opportunities for networking and collaboration across borders and cultures.

The musical focus lies on a selection of Berlin’ ﬁ nest electronic music, namely, House, Techno and Minimal. However, many artists from the ﬁ elds of Ambient, Noise, Dub, Drum’n’Bass, Pop, Triphop, Dubstep, Breakbeats, Drone, Hip Hop and Techdub will add to the varied musical program. Although the netaudio scene consists of artists mostly unknown to the broader public, many names have already earned international recognition. This is reﬂ ected in the lineup of the evening program, crowned by such illustrious ﬁ gures as Pheek, D. Diggler, Erich Lesovsky, Marc Schneider, Gold- will, Tanith, Stereoshape, SCSI-9, Disrupt, Holger Flinsch, Marko Fürstenberg, and the Kraftfuttermischwerk. With over 100 participating artists spread over 3 nights, the netaudio festival gives a comprehensive insight into the various musical genres and brings netaudio music to life for participants and visitors. The day program includes numer- ous workshops and discussions with top experts as well as a ﬁ lm program, showcases, a netaudio-(label) exhibition, and various contributions from other art forms.

The Berliner Crew has beneﬁ ted from their experience during the previous Berlin Festival in 2007 and from their involve- ment with international partners in London, Moscow, Barcelona and Bologna. In addition to their ambition to further develop the netaudio scene worldwide, the organizers also hope to strengthen the position of Berlin as a hub between East and West, by integrating various netlabels from all parts of Europe. The organizers are sending a signal of excla- mation to the netaudio community, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe.

More information: http://www.netaudioberlin.de
Lineup: http://www.netaudioberlin.de/artists/
Tickets: http://tickets.netaudioberlin.de
Logo and Online-Banner: http://www.netaudioberlin.de/media/

Back from Cologne Commons

Harald Walker — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:16:07 +0000

Last week I spent two days at the first Cologne Commons conference and festival. Cologne Commons was an intense experience with interesting discussions and great music. It was great to meet some netaudio artists and other people who run Netlabels themselves.

Highlights were the live performances of Entertainment For The Braindead and Comfort Fit on Friday. Between 3 and 4 am I played my DJ set with a mixture of electro, breakbeats, techno and house. Below you can find the playlist. The Cologne Commons crew did a great job in organizing this event, and I would like to thank them for inviting me.

#	Artist	Title	Label	Catalog No.
1	Dorothy’s Magic Bag	Female Voice	Candy Mind	candy027
2	Markus Masuhr	Some People Call Me Later	Subversive Media	sm001
3	Markus Masuhr	Novrosibirsk	Equaliteq	Eqq017
4	Docma	Sum Sum	Idealtechno	ideal017
5	Prosper Prowano	elektro star (kraken!)	Future-Komp	FK012
6	Patrick Diessner	What’s Next	Stadtgruen	stadt018
7	Retax Gorgon	Integrated Lifeforms	nonstopnonsense.netLab	nnnl.upd.01
8	Liquid Strange	Smeartest (extended)	Candy Mind	candy027
9	Stig Inge	Snuff	Musicartistry Recordings	MA029
10	finegrind & benson	Zimmer042.05 – reflex	Zimmer Records	zimmer042
11	Badtrans	Maysource	Gartenzwerg Records
12	Baymont Bross	Anthony Rother Is Playing At My House	Evil Records	EVIL-017
13	ZLIJAY	Who’s Got Da Beat	Oscilator	freeosc44
14	MdM	Come Back	Nu Logic	Nu-Logic012
15	Hannelore Klinke	Daftdiscorockpunk Technolectromalephonk (Sanomats Acid Kingz Remix)	Rest	rest025
16	Lé Housetear	Musique pour lé Futur	Auflegware	alw027
17	demir	fist of tequeneek	Pentagonik	pntg007
18	Benny Feenell	Manic Delusion (Club Mix)	FOEM	ElecYouth15
19	andrea p	feeling stolen	Inoquo	inoquo044
20	electoy	exodar	Symbiont-Music	sm015
21	Crookram	Hostile	Budabeats	bube002

zoe.orange + X meets psycoded and friends

Harald Walker — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:55 +0000

Tonight zoe.orange + X meets psycoded and friends at the netlabelnights in Duesseldorf (Germany). Netlabelnights are a monthly creative commons event with DJs and live acts at the Pretty Vacant, Mertensgasse 8, Düsseldorf.

Dj Expo 2005 Amsterdam video

Harald Walker — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:43:10 +0000

A short video clip of the DJ Expo 2005 in Amsterdam with the Denon DN-S3500, Numark CDX and Speedy J.

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DJExpo 2005

Harald Walker — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:00:17 +0000

On August 27th and 28th, the DJExpo 2005 will take place in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). This new event provides hands-on access to the technology and equipment used to create today’s Dance music via artist presentations and demos, masterclasses, workshops etc. This is an end-user event, so people can also buy the latest DJ Gear and DJ Software. All the leading companies in the Dance industry (record labels, record stores, DJ gear, PA companies, synth gear, magazines, light & sound, laser companies will show their latest products.